evenglome

noun /ˈiː.vənˌɡləʊm/

1. Twilight; dusk; crepusculum.

   rare, uncountable

   They are like men who have lived always in broad day—who have never seen evenglome or moonlight.

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Old English ǣfenglōm, as the term began being used soon after the publication of Early England and the Saxon-English in 1869, where the word is first listed in this form. By surface analysis, even + glome (“gloom”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry evenglome (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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