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Today's Word "crepuscular"

Pertaining to twilight on

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crepuscular \kri-PUS-kyuh-lur\ (adjective) - 1 : Of, pertaining to, or resembling twilight; dim. 2 : (Zoology) An animal which is appearing or active at twilight.

"The whisper of his conviction seemed to open before me a vast and uncertain expanse, as of a crepuscular horizon on a plain at dawn..." -- Joseph Conrad, 'Lord Jim'

 

Crepuscular comes from Latin crepusculum, twilight, from creper, dark, obscure; ultimately of Sabine origin.


 

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