Definitions
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- verb Simple past of
twilight . - verb Past participle of
twilight - adjective
Illuminated by or as if bytwilight .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lighted by or as if by twilight
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's not difficult to see Parker's point: Milne's plays are steeped in a kind of twilit cutesiness that gives the impression they were written in scented violet ink.
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It's not difficult to see Parker's point: Milne's plays are steeped in a kind of twilit cutesiness that gives the impression they were written in scented violet ink.
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Mars, mag 1.4 and reddish in hue, is 8° below-left of the Pleiades as it rises into the twilit NE sky at 02:45 BST on the 1st.
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Once the children have reached maturity they leave their school-type community and embark on a twilit adult life, in which they are given limited access to the normal world while they await the summons to make their first "donation".
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Above, sunlight shined in through the windows of the cupola, imparting a hazy, twilit glow to the circular space.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Mars, mag 1.4 and reddish in hue, is 8° below-left of the Pleiades as it rises into the twilit NE sky at 02:45 BST on the 1st.
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“Ssh,” someone said, hovering over her in the dim, twilit room.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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“Ssh,” someone said, hovering over her in the dim, twilit room.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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(Not just in veiled terms, either -- with a Japanese and an American war vet thrown into one of his twilit scenarios.)
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Above, sunlight shined in through the windows of the cupola, imparting a hazy, twilit glow to the circular space.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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