the gloamingnoun [ S ]
uk/ˈɡləʊ.mɪŋ/us/ˈɡloʊ.mɪŋ/literary or Scottish Englishthe part of the day after the sun has gone down and before the sky is completely dark:
They sat on a hillside in the gloaming, watching the lights come on in the houses below.
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