Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Crepuscular.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Crepuscular.
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- adjective Obsolete form of
crepuscular .
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Examples
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That pure opaque of the line of downs ran luminously edged against the pearly morning sky, with its dark landward face crepusculine yet clear in every combe, every dotting copse and furze-bush, every wavy fall, and the ripple, crease, and rill-like descent of the turf.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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That pure opaque of the line of downs ran luminously edged against the pearly morning sky, with its dark landward face crepusculine yet clear in every combe, every dotting copse and furze-bush, every wavy fall, and the ripple, crease, and rill-like descent of the turf.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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That pure opaque of the line of downs ran luminously edged against the pearly morning sky, with its dark landward face crepusculine yet clear in every combe, every dotting copse and furze-bush, every wavy fall, and the ripple, crease, and rill-like descent of the turf.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868
Dan337 commented on the word crepusculine
See also “crepuscle”, “crepuscular”, “crepuscular arch”, “crepuscular ray”, “crepuscule”, “crepusculous”, and “crepusculum”.
January 26, 2011