tweenlight
nounEtymology
From Old English twēonlēoht (“twilight”, literally “double-/doubtful-/uncertain-light”). The alternative spellings are due to a misassociation with between, erroneously interpreting tweenlight as if it were a shortening of between-light.
Definitions
The period between dusk and nightfall
The period between dusk and nightfall; twilight.
- All this I understood as in a mist dimly, or 'tweenlight; yet I felt a movement of some sort upon the horizon of intellectual attainment, [...]
- Afterwards he strode round the village in the sweet evening 'tweenlight.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA