evenfall en · NOUN
Etymology
From even (“evening”) + fall. Compare nightfall.
Meanings
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(countable, poetic, uncountable) dusk, twilight
The wind that blows across them calls Ever at dawns and evenfalls, And I am suddenly forlorn. Across the pastures and ripe corn I see the mountains in my dreams.
1905, Katharine Tynan, “The Exile”, in Innocencies, London: A. H. Bullen, page 15:Arriving at Brinkley in the quiet evenfall and putting the old machine away in the garage, I noticed that Aunt Dahlia's car was there and gathered from this that the aged relative was around and about once more.
1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| evenfalls | Number=Plur | lexicographic |