[每日] gloaming (n) 黃昏
Word of the Day (Friday October 31, 2008)
gloaming \GLOH-ming\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/6f53l
Twilight; dusk.
The children squealed and waved and smiled, their teeth flashing
white in the gloaming.
-- Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life
It was the gloaming, when a man cannot make out if the nebulous
figure he glimpses in the shadows is angel or demon, when the
face of evening is stained by red clouds and wounded by lights.
-- Homero Aridjis, 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of
Castile (translated by Betty Ferber)
Arrived at the village station on a wintry evening, when the
gloaming is punctuated by the cheery household lamps, shining
here and there like golden stars, through the leafless trees.
-- Margaret Sangster
Gloaming comes from Old English glomung, from glom, "dusk."
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