Crepuscule

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈkɹɛpÊŠskjuːl/

Alternative forms

• crepuscle

Origin

From Middle French crepuscule, from Latin crepusculum.

Full definition of crepuscule

Noun

1. (now rare) Twilight.
• 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 54:Van watched them with the same pleasurable awe he had experienced as a child, when, lost in the purple crepuscule of an Italian hotel garden, in an alley of cypresses, he supposed they were golden ghouls or the passing fancies of the garden.

Derived terms

• crepuscular