evenglome

Noun

evenglome (uncountable)

1. (rare, literary or puristic) Twilight; dusk; crepusculum.
   • They are like men who have lived always in broad day—who have never seen evenglome or moonlight.1870, Mortimer Collins, “The Chicard Experiment” (chapter XXXVI), in The Vivian Romance, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 95, column 2
   • It was the pleasing summer time.
     When winds were soft as rose or rhyme,
     And, in the soothing evenglome,
     The windows of an English home,
     Open at dusk, let odours in
     Of lily and early jessamine,
     And mignonette, and linden flowers,
     Late-lingering in their leafy bowers :[…]1889, William Brighty Rands, “Flowers and Snow”, in Thomas Archer, editor, Our Sunday Book of Reading and Pictures, Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh, page 211