You may imagine the young people brushed up after the labours of the day, and making this novelty, as they would make any novelty, the excuse for walking together and enjoying a trivial flirtation. You may figure to yourself the hum of voices along the road in the gloaming...
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Gloaming — may refer to:* Gloaming, or twilight, the time after sunset and before dark* Gloaming (horse), a famous Australian bred racehorse * The Gloaming , the subtitle of Radiohead s album Hail to the Thief and the title of one of its tracks … Wikipedia
gloaming — ► NOUN (the gloaming) literary ▪ twilight; dusk. ORIGIN Old English, related to GLOW(Cf. ↑glow) … English terms dictionary
Gloaming — Gloam ing, n. [See {Gloom}.] 1. Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening. [Scot. & North of Eng., and in poetry.] Hogg. [1913 Webster] 2. Sullenness; melancholy. [Obs.] J. Still. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
gloaming — O.E. glomung twilight, formed (probably on model of æfning evening ) from glom twilight, related to glowan to glow (hence glow of sunrise or sunset ), from P.Gmc. *glo (see GLOW (Cf. glow)). Fell from currency except in Yorkshire dialect, but… … Etymology dictionary
gloaming — [glōm′iŋ] n. [ME (Scot) glomyng < OE glomung < glom, twilight, akin to glowan, to GLOW: adopted in literature < Scot dial.] evening dusk; twilight … English World dictionary
gloaming — gloam|ing [ˈgləumıŋ US ˈglou ] n [: Old English; Origin: glomung] the gloaming literary the time in the early evening when it is becoming dark = ↑dusk … Dictionary of contemporary English
gloaming — noun (the gloaming) literary twilight; dusk. Origin OE glōmung, from glōm twilight , of Gmc origin; related to glow … English new terms dictionary
gloaming — noun (U) the gloaming poetic the time in the early evening when it is becoming dark; dusk … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Gloaming (horse) — Thoroughbred racehorse infobox horsename = Gloaming caption = sire = The Welkin grandsire = Flying Fox dam = Light damsire = Eager sex = Gelding foaled = 1915 country = Australia colour = Bay breeder = E. E. D. Clarke owner = George D. Greenwood… … Wikipedia
gloaming — noun Etymology: Middle English (Scots) gloming, from Old English glōming, from glōm twilight; akin to Old English glōwan to glow Date: before 12th century twilight, dusk … New Collegiate Dictionary
