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gloaming
UK /ˈɡləʊ.mɪŋ/ US /ˈɡloʊ.mɪŋ/
noun 2
Collocations
3VERB + GLOAMING
swooped
GLOAMING + NOUN
insects
PREP.
in, out, through, up
Definitions
noun
1
Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.
Where in purple hue, the hieland hills we view / And the moon coming out in the gloaming.
You may imagine the young people brushed up after the labours of the day, and making this novelty, as they would make any novelty, the excuse for walking together and enjoying a trivial flirtation. You may figure to yourself the hum of voices along the road in the gloaming[…]
2
Sullenness; melancholy.
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Idioms & Phrases
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Where in purple hue, the hieland hills we view / And the moon coming out in the gloaming.
Wiktionary02
You may imagine the young people brushed up after the labours of the day, and making this novelty, as they would make any novelty, the excuse for walking together and enjoying a trivial flirtation. Yo
Wiktionary03
I clung to her nipples as she soared and swooped through the gloaming, scooping up insects, and I remember the shapes of things that she flew between, above, beneath.
Wiktionary04
He paced up and down the ship's deck in the gloaming.
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