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gloaming

gloa·ming

UK/ˈɡləʊ.mɪŋ/ US/ˈɡloʊ.mɪŋ/ uncommon obsolete

noun

1.

the time of day immediately following sunset

  • “he loved the twilight”
  • “they finished before the fall of night”
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Origin

From Middle English gloming, from Old English glōmung, from Old English glōm (“twilight”). Related to glow. The OED notes: "The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English glōmung should normally become glooming. The explanation is probably that the ō was shortened in the compound ǣfen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new subject glŏmung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English glǭming, modern English gloaming."

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