gloaming

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The Word of the Day for September 25 is:

gloaming   \GLOH-ming\   noun
     : twilight, dusk

Example sentence: 
     In the gloaming we could just barely make out the outlines of my father 
and brother returning home from their evening walk.

Did you know? 
     If "gloaming" makes you think of tartans and bagpipes, then you've got 
both a good ear and a good eye; the term owes much to the influence of our 
Caledonian cousins. The word was used in the Scots dialects of English back in 
the Middle Ages, but its roots trace to the Old English word for twilight, 
"glom," which is related to "glowan," an Old English verb meaning "to glow" 
(perhaps in reference to the soft glow of the sky at twilight). In the early 
1820s, the Scots English verb "gloam" ("to become twilight") became the source 
of a noun "gloam," meaning "twilight," but this word no longer sees the light 
of day.