gloam

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Our love and admiration lifted a starry dome Of happiness above her in life's last hour of gloam, And snow-white pure she passed then to her eternal home.

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  1. noun Archaic Twilight; gloaming.

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  • What David had seen in the morning gloam was no different than what he saw in sunshine—the woman he'd begun to believe he'd never find, and fallen in love with the moment he had, who whispered his name in her sleep Caffeine, pain relievers and a hot-as-she-could-stand shower reduced Hannah's hangover to a mild malaise. —  Ledbetter, Suzann - North of Clever
  • Autumn and its thousand adjectives have come to this, a swither in the trees, their limbs bronchial and backlit in the gloam. —  VQR
  • It was freezing, it was snowing, and it wasn't even eight o'clock on a Saturday morning yet, and here was this group of hardy warriors, voluntarily zipping through the gloam and gloom on two slippery poles. —  Nothing But Bonfires - You say tomato, I say you're saying it wrong
  • Our love and admiration lifted a starry dome Of happiness above her in life's last hour of gloam, And snow-white pure she passed then to her eternal home. —  Poems and Songs
  • It is rest they're vainly seeking, love and laughter in the gloam, —  Just Folks
 

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  1. Back-formation from gloaming.

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  1. A dial. variant of gloom.
  2. A dial. variant of gloom, v.
 

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