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(adj) of, resembling, or relating to twilight

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crepuscularity
crepuscular



the most vigorous crepuscular commerce is taking place out here

starting to love this word

—p.157 Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open (127) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 5 months ago


You got your standard crepuscular rustles.

—p.556 by David Foster Wallace
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6 years, 10 months ago


Perhaps the glow at the horizon is neither of longer sunsets nor less sudden dawns, but is rather a protracted, constitutive ambiguity. Such crepuscularity we have all known, and will all know again.

—p.3 Introduction (1) by China Miéville
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7 years, 2 months ago


an absolutely exact description of the crepuscular flight of the male of the geometrid called in England the Orange moth

—p.129 by Vladimir Nabokov
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5 years, 2 months ago


a funerary note already echoed there--crepuscular, spectral, and therefore resurrectional

—p.43 Injunctions of Marx (1) by Jacques Derrida
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7 years ago


She berated him then, and for a while the crepuscular birds retreated, but outside the wind had blown the sun out, and it was getting very cold.

it's defined a little earlier on

—p.13 by Jonathan Franzen
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1 year, 3 months ago


The very mornings were now crepuscular.

—p.237 by Shirley Hazzard
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3 months, 3 weeks ago