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Definition of Crepuscle
1. Noun. The time of day immediately following sunset. "They finished before the fall of night"
Group relationships: Eve, Even, Evening, Eventide
Specialized synonyms: Night
Generic synonyms: Hour, Time Of Day
Derivative terms: Crepuscular, Crepuscular, Dusky
Definition of Crepuscle
1. n. Twilight.
Definition of Crepuscle
1. Noun. variant of crepuscule ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crepuscle
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crepuscle
Literary usage of Crepuscle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essay Towards a Dictionary, Tibetan and English by Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Saṅs-rgyas-phun-tshogs (1834)
"U'^aj'^z, to be the custom, fashion. QSX'Z^x, to become a custom. j, adj. customary.
, adj. unusual, uncommon. J, s. crepuscle, twilight, ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1877)
"He is, however, of the opinion that it may have been overlooked or mistaken for
the crepuscle at early dawn or twilight. It has been supposed that Pliny, ..."
3. Shelburne Essays by Paul Elmer More (1908)
"There was in all these poets an unusual age-consciousness; the glory of Greece
was behind them, and they wrote in a sort of crepuscle, awaiting the night. ..."
4. Characters and Events of Roman History, from Caesar to Nero: The Lowell by Guglielmo Ferrero (1909)
"... in marrying Cleopatra, probably only applied more or less shrewdly the ideas
that Caesar had originated in the refulgent crepuscle of his tempestuous ..."
5. Essay Towards a Dictionary, Tibetan and English by Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Saṅs-rgyas-phun-tshogs (1834)
"U'^aj'^z, to be the custom, fashion. QSX'Z^x, to become a custom. j, adj. customary.
, adj. unusual, uncommon. J, s. crepuscle, twilight, ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1877)
"He is, however, of the opinion that it may have been overlooked or mistaken for
the crepuscle at early dawn or twilight. It has been supposed that Pliny, ..."
7. Shelburne Essays by Paul Elmer More (1908)
"There was in all these poets an unusual age-consciousness; the glory of Greece
was behind them, and they wrote in a sort of crepuscle, awaiting the night. ..."
8. Characters and Events of Roman History, from Caesar to Nero: The Lowell by Guglielmo Ferrero (1909)
"... in marrying Cleopatra, probably only applied more or less shrewdly the ideas
that Caesar had originated in the refulgent crepuscle of his tempestuous ..."
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