gloam

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Back-formation from gloaming.

I only know that his little grave stands out there while the gloaming gloams and the soughing winds are soughing. — Remarks, Bill Nye
THE WOMAN IN THE FOREST Thick thunder of the snorting swine, Enormous in the gloam, Rending among all roots that cling, And the wild horses whinnying, Were the night's noises when the King Shouldering his harp, went home. — The Ballad of the White Horse, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Now Rathumus the wood-cutter, tall and gaunt and fierce-eyed, coming home with his fagots on his shoulder in the gloam of the evening, when the fireflies twinkled low among the marshes, saw Nicanor on the side of the hill against the sky, sitting with hands clasped about his knees, crooning to the stars. — Nicanor - Teller of Tales : A Story of Roman Britain, C. Bryson Taylor

twilight, dusk, gloaming, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle

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