crepuscule

crepuscule

See also: crépuscule

English

Alternative forms

• crepuscle

Etymology

From Middle French crepuscule, from Latin crepusculum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɛpʊskjuːl/

Noun

crepuscule (plural crepuscules)

1. (now rare) Twilight.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 54:

     Van watched them with the same pleasurable awe he had experienced as a child, when, lost in the purple crepuscule of an Italian hotel garden, in an alley of cypresses, he supposed they were golden ghouls or the passing fancies of the garden.

Related terms

• crepuscular

Translations

twilight

Bulgarian: здрач (bg) m (zdrač), полумрак (bg) m (polumrak) Catalan: crepuscle (ca) French: crépuscule (fr) m German: Dämmerung (de) f, Abenddämmerung (de) f

Italian: crepuscolo (it) m Russian: су́мерки (ru) (súmerki) Spanish: crepúsculo (es)

See also

• smokefall
• crepusculum