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Meanings of gloaming in English

Portuguese
pôr do sol
Catalan
capvespre
Spanish
crepúsculo

The time of day immediately following sunset.

pôr do sol
Usage of gloaming in English
1
The front-door was open, and the birds were singing in the gloaming.
Greatheart
2
There was no mistaking who it was waiting there in the gloaming.
Mary Ware's Promised Land
3
Shadows at edges of woods moved, and then merged in the gloaming.
Tales of War
4
He peered into the misty gloaming and saw the river-thereal river.
Genellan: planetfall
5
Midnight is only a low noon, the middle point of the gloaming.
Travels in Alaska
6
The baskets, Yejiro, and I followed, after a little, through the gloaming.
Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan
7
A little light entered the room from the gloaming outside the window.
American Gods
8
It was blue gloaming, and he had just switched his headlights on.
Enchanted Glass
9
In the gloaming woods, she couldn't see the color of his horse.
Wizardborn
10
I met him in the early morning, I met him in the gloaming.
The Tragedy of the Chain Pier / Everyday Life Library No. 3
11
Two figures passed slowly along the gray of the roadway in the gloaming.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates / Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning...
12
On the other side of the poor bed in the gloaming stood Benedetto.
The Saint
13
It was in the gloaming, and the little sitting-room was warm and cosy.
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
14
And so we went on again across the hill-face in the sombre gloaming.
John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars...
15
I was just up the hill there for a saunter in the gloaming.
The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands
16
I gave him the salutation, and passed on in the gloaming.
Fountains in the Sand: Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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Gloaming through the time
Gloaming across language varieties
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