Tweenlight

Quick meaning: Tweenlight is a noun meaning (rare or dialectal) The period between dusk and nightfall; twilight.

Meaning

(rare or dialectal) The period between dusk and nightfall; twilight.

Example Sentences

Afterwards he strode round the village in the sweet evening 'tweenlight.

All this I understood as in a mist dimly, or 'tweenlight; yet I felt a movement of some sort upon the horizon of intellectual attainment, [...]

Faith, sir, she says that Fergus has had an outforce lying in the hills yonder these three days, and waits an opportunity of surprising the fort — that they had moved down this tweenlight, and were sweeping along by the glens two hours ago; [...]

Through morning and into evening, the war resumed, mounted with shouting and cursing and singing of martial airs, bluster, batting, torn hair, and flying spittle, until the ceil dimmed to brown and welcome tweenlight tell over the breathless, bruised combatants.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tween, night, tweendom, tweenager, twilight, nighttime.

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