Definitions
Etymologies
- From Middle French crepuscule, from Latin crepusculum. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin crepusculum, from creper, dark. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Along the way, Sheinkin has fun lobbing insanely difficult and obscure words (such as crepuscule, phylactery and elangues) into her young contestants 'laps like live grenades.”
“Fresh off Broadway ... six quirky students come face-to-face with all their insecurities and puberty while under pressure to spell words like "crepuscule" correctly.”
“On winter dusks, robin ticks and wren flourishes made a percussive crepuscule for the settling wood.”
“I try to avoid abstract words, or poetical words, you know, like crepuscule, for example.”
“Certainly, it would make her life far more attractive in the crepuscule of life, but that is not to be.”
“Mouston and I had gone for a ramble in the park -- it's gorgeous there in the _crepuscule_ -- and we were quite close to the Hermitage.”
“An undulating vapor of molten metal seemed pouring down on the roofs of the town; and in the descending crepuscule yellow and violet rays flashed through a trembling and iridescent glow.”
“But really,' asked Jimbo, 'it's only -- _crepuscule, comme ca, _ isn't it?”
“The elder man turned to the window, and through the grey curtain of crepuscule recognised the rakish topsail schooner that had excited”
“Medjé" in the growing crepuscule I feel in perfect sympathy with my audience.”
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crepuscule’.
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Mirrored Vowels
Rules:
• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 more...
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Thresholds
we are all just passing through.
(boundaries, portals and liminal spaces/times)cockcrow, interface, thin line, portal, postern, littoral, portico, porch, stoop, strand, liminal, limen and 304 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 503 more...
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Times of Day
A cycle we should know by name
dawn, sunrise, daw, sparrow-fart, moonrise, daybreak, crepuscular, false dawn, greking, night, dusk, evenfall and 17 more...
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The Bucolic Abattoir
Words which, when spoken, suggest something other than their real meaning.
bucolic, fungible, brouhaha, narthex, restive, inflammable, invaluable, raze, pulchritude, noisome, fatuous, terrific and 21 more...
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words that would make excellent names...
brimborion, crepuscule, anabaena, cachexia, boron, dermacentor, galactivore, archenteron, scolopax, gingiva, norovirus, mulligrub and 10 more...
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Heterological
You'd never guess the meaning looking at the word
pulchritudinous, crepuscule, dropsy, sexfoil, mingent, twitter-bone, vagitus, half-hag, brownswine, sempervirent, roric, osculum
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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julie elleray list #1
some of my favourite words, when I think of them.
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minneapolitan's Words
hissyfit, fussbudget, aghast, lament, trichinellosis, tranche, decadent, aspersion, pejorative, aniline, galoshes, accede and 200 more...
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polymorph's Words
pornerastic, yeaux, enantiadromia, synchronicity, transubstantiation, sensimilla, slough, scaphism, symbiosis, prolix, orgiastic, cryptogamic and 245 more...
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Pale Fire
Words gathered while reading Pale Fire.
larches, torquate, stillicide, vermiculate, preterist, theolatry, iridule, vulgarian, cloutish, lemniscate, torsion, trillium and 176 more...
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misleading words.
words that sound like they mean something much different than they are.
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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ill-suited words
Words that don't seem to fit their definitions.
jejune, palimpsest, refulgent, splenetic, pulchritude, bulkhead, crepuscule
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hedges's Words
wii, crepuscule, adumbrate, concatenation, sufi, qawwali, furry, riot, mellifluous, conspiracy, etymology, tea cozy and 369 more...
Tweets
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Dan337 See also “crepuscle”, “crepuscular”, “crepuscular arch”, “crepuscular ray”, “crepusculine”, “crepusculous”, and “crepusculum”. Jan 26, 2011
Dan337 Perhaps the most well-known popular usage of this word occurs in the title “Crepuscule with Nellie”. Jan 26, 2011
nkocharh This word has the dubious distinction of being used in Scientology matériel like so:
"Here is an example: 'It was found that when the crepuscule arrived the children were quieter and when it was not present, they were much livelier.' What happens is you think you do not understand the whole idea, but the inability to understand comes entirely from the one word you could not define, crepuscule, which means twilight or darkness."
There you have it, from L. Ron Hubbard himself.
Dec 12, 2006