gloaming
/ˈɡləʊmɪŋ
/noun (the gloaming) literary
Twilight; dusk: hundreds of lights are already shimmering in the gloaming...
- It's the gloaming twilight of it, the soft seduction of lost hopes, the valiant wit, the heroic jig.
- As it was, the darkness of night was beginning to give way to the gloaming before daylight.
- But these marines did see a black flag pop up all at once above a water tower about 100 yards away, then a second flag somewhere in the gloaming above a rooftop.
Origin
Old English glōmung, from glōm 'twilight', of Germanic origin; related to glow.