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crepuscules

crepuscules is the plural of crepuscule.

Meaning of crepuscule

Noun

crepuscule (plural crepuscules)

  1. (archaic) Twilight.
    • 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.1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 54
    Synonyms:
    blue hour, gloaming

Questions about crepuscules

What is crepuscules the plural of?
Crepuscules is the plural of crepuscule.

Words near crepuscules in the dictionary

  1. crepuscular rays
  2. crepuscularities
  3. crepuscularity
  4. crepuscularly
  5. crepuscule
  6. crepuscules
  7. crepusculine
  8. crepusculous
  9. crepusculum
  10. crepy
  11. Creque

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