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crepuscule Now rare.|krɪˈpʌskjuːl, ˈkrɛpʌskjuːl|
[a. F. crépuscule, ad. L. crepusculum: see below.]
Twilight.
c1391Chaucer Astrol. ii. §6 The spring of the dawyng and the ende of the euenyng, the which ben called the two crepusculus. Ibid. §9 Know the quantite of thi crepusculis. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France II. 202 The crepuscule [is] less abrupt in its departure. 1819H. Busk Banquet ii. 41 Coeval with the crepuscule of morn. 1866J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Fasti v. 183 And when the doubtful crepuscule is gone The Hyades appear. |