Crepuscle

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crepuscle \Cre*pus"cle\ (kr[-e]*p[u^]s"s'l), Crepuscule
  \Cre*pus"cule\ (kr[-e]*p[u^]s"k[-u]l), n. [L. crepusculum, fr.
     creper dusky, dark: cf. F. cr['e]puscule.]
     Twilight. --Bailey.
     [1913 Webster] Crepuscular



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crepuscle
       n : the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the
           twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn:
            {twilight}, {dusk}, {gloaming}, {nightfall}, {evenfall},
            {fall}, {crepuscule}]