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English Dictionary: crepuscle by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
crepuscle
n
  1. the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
    Synonym(s): twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Crepuscle \Cre*pus"cle\ (kr[esl]*p[ucr]s"s'l), Crepuscule
   \Cre*pus"cule\ (kr[esl]*p[ucr]s"k[usl]l), n. [L. crepusculum,
      fr. creper dusky, dark: cf. F. cr[82]puscule.]
      Twilight. --Bailey.
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