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Jul 22, 2010
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PRONUNCIATION:
(GLO-ming)
MEANING:
noun:
Twilight; dusk.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle English gloming, from Old English glomung, from glom (dusk).
Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghel- (to shine), which is also the
source of words such as yellow, gold, glimmer, glimpse, glass, arsenic,
melancholy, and cholera.
USAGE:
"The book is a marked departure from previous (Robert) Harris works
set in the chill gloaming of mid-20th-century European history, an
era that has fascinated him since he was a child."Alan Cowell; A Writer's Allegories For Today; International Herald Tribune (Paris, France); Nov 18, 2003. See more usage examples of gloaming in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult. -Charles Buxton, brewer, philanthropist, writer, and politician (1823-1871)
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