lusco-fusco — meaning in English

English meaning

• nightfall noun The time when day turns to night; dusk.
• twilight noun The soft, dim light in the sky just before sunrise or, more commonly, just after sunset.

Senses

lusco-fusco is used for these senses in English:

• nightfall The close of the day; the coming of night.
• twilight The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

twilight — full definition

1. noun The soft, dim light in the sky just before sunrise or, more commonly, just after sunset.
2. noun A fading or declining stage of something.
3. adj Dim, faint, or suggestive of twilight.

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