单词 | crepusculum |
释义 | ‖ crepusculum|krɪˈpʌskjuːləm| [L. = twilight, a diminutive formation, related to creper dusky, dark, creperum darkness.] Twilight, dusk.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ix. xxiv. 361 The euentyde highte Crepusculum..whanne it is nat certaynly knowe bytwene lyght and derknesse. 1430Lydg. Chron. Troy iii. xxiii, The same time..That clerkes call Crepusculum at eue. 1638Wilkins New World i. (1684) 176 By Observing the height of that Air which causeth the Crepusculum, or Twilight. 1840De Quincey Rhet. Wks. X. 34 Which interval we regard as the common crepusculum between ancient and modern history. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxv. (1856) 313 The twilight too, that long Arctic crepusculum, seemed..disproportionally increased in its duration. |

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