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darkfall

noun

Etymology

From dark + fall, modelled after nightfall.

  1. inherited from *fallą✻
  2. inherited from fealle — “trap, snare”
  3. inherited from feall
  4. inherited from fal
  5. inherited from *h₃elh₁-✻ — “to collapse, fall; to destroy”
  6. inherited from *fallaną✻ — “to fall”
  7. inherited from *fallan✻ — “to fall”
  8. inherited from feallan — “to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”
  9. inherited from fallen
  10. compounded as darkfall — “dark + fall”

Definitions

  1. The time of day when it becomes dark.

    • They stopped long enough to put on warmer jackets and continued the arduous climb, hoping to find a sheltered spot for the darkfall.
    • At darkfall I heard only one instrument like a glorified Jew's harp.
    • But we did catch Turosh skulking around the Shiso last darkfall.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA