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evenglome en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈiː.vənˌɡləʊm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈi.vənˌɡloʊm/ (General-American)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English ǣfenglōm, as the term began being used soon after the publication of Early England and the Saxon-English in 1869, where the word is first listed in this form. By surface analysis, even + glome (“gloom”).

Meanings

1. (qualifier:literary or puristic, rare, uncountable) Twilight; dusk; crepusculum.
   • IN THE DUSK of the evenglome, Darric Boarson and four archers of his free company rode to the edge of Bellesmane Wood. 1943, Franklin Davey McDowell, chapter VIII, in Forges of Freedom, Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, page 96:
   • 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:
   • To the tired traveller, in the evenglome, The long way wended, welcome is the inn, Though narrow be the house and cold the bed, At least thou shalt sleep well among thy kin. The innumerous generations of the dead. 1921, John Payne, The Way of the Winepress, John Payne Society:
   • 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:
   • Occasionally at evenglome one of the Gillie Girls would come and sit on a Rock offshore and sing to me by the light of the lilly-lows, accompanying herself on her long golden hair, which should not have sorted very well with her scaly green skin but somehow did. 1975 January 14, Evelyn E. Smith, Unpopular Planet, Dell Publishing, page 331:

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