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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dusk.

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Examples

  • And because it cannot be durable: ordre is taken, that when it is soiled or dusked muche, with passyng from man to man, thei shall bring it to the coignyng house, and make exchaunge for newe.

    The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

  • It was a hot, still morning, when everything outdoors shone brightly, and all indoors was dusked with coolness and colour.

    The Trespasser 2003

  • The sun crossed his vision and his helmet dusked to save it, turning the disc to dull gold, a coin on which the spots were a mintage he could not read.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Toward dawn, when fog off the river dusked the light night of Daedalus, she went out there, explaining to a sleepy kitchen helper whom she passed that she must see to the creature's well-being.

    The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

  • Yet I felt it was almost possible that it was the same woman after all, that she had changed clothing, changed wigs, dusked her face with cosmetics in the few seconds between the other's exit and her entrance.

    The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

  • Fortune was not overkind, but his 'virtues and pious intentions may be read ... shining too gloriously to be dusked by misfortune.'

    Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

  • True we also had talk in the library, dusked with books, dead men's spirits packed shoulder to shoulder on the shelves.

    The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

  • Blue-grey light from between the venetian blinds just dusked the room.

    The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

  • It was a hot, still morning, when everything outdoors shone brightly, and all indoors was dusked with coolness and colour.

    The Trespasser 1907

  • But the old brown-gold splendor, though dusked over, drew yet.

    Foes Mary Johnston 1903

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