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Webster 1913 Edition

Crepuscule

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Cre-pus′cle

(krē̍-pŭs′s’l)
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Cre-pus′cule

(krē̍-pŭs′kū̍l)
, }
Noun.
[L.
crepusculum
, fr.
creper
dusky, dark: cf. F.
crépuscule
.]
Twilight.
Bailey.

Webster 1828 Edition

Crepuscule

CREPUSCLE

, CREPUSCULE,
Noun.
[L., a little burst or break of light, or broken light.] Twilight; the light of the morning from the first dawn to sunrise, and of the evening from sunset to darkness. It is occasioned by the refraction of the suns ray.

Definition 2024

crepuscule

crepuscule

See also: crépuscule

English

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Noun

crepuscule ‎(plural crepuscules)

  1. (now rare) Twilight.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 54:
      Van watched them with the same pleasurable awe he had experienced as a child, when, lost in the purple crepuscule of an Italian hotel garden, in an alley of cypresses, he supposed they were golden ghouls or the passing fancies of the garden.

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Etymology

From Middle French crepuscule, from Latin crepusculum.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɛpʊskjuːl/

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