vespertine
/ˈvɛspətʌɪn
/ /ˈvɛspətɪn/adjective technical or literary
Relating to, occurring, or active in the evening.Between superior and inferior conjunction, Mercury is vespertine: an evening star seen setting just after sunset; it is also waning and decelerating....
- The illusion that the viewer shares this vespertine light with the painting evokes not merely a sense of spatial unity (viewer and painted scene both under the ‘same’ lighting) but a temporal unity as well.
- The latter is a sober and vespertine work, set to Verdi arias and performed by three men and one woman with a plaid, bow-shaped pillow attached to her back, suggestive perhaps of wings.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin vespertinus, from vesper 'evening'.