gloam

American  

[glohm] / gloʊm /

noun

Archaic.

1. twilight; gloaming.

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Etymology

Origin of gloam

First recorded in 1815–25; back formation from gloaming

Example Sentences

I loved the walk home after work, a damp mist falling, the sky turning purple and the White House aglow in the evening gloam, so close that you could reach out and touch it.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2021

The summer was over too fast and suddenly I was back to Dublin’s autumn gloam, to my night job in a cinema, and to college, where I bumped into Rob again.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2019

Or built us some snug country home Among the hills; with terraces Vine-hung and orchared o'er the foam Of the Ohio, far one sees Wind crimson in the gloam.

From Days and Dreams Poems by Cawein, Madison J.

And each Fairy of our home— Fire-fly—its torch then lit In the honey-scented gloam, Dashing down the dusk with it, Like an instant flaming foam.

From The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics by Cawein, Madison Julius

And when at last the long night nears,   And love grows angel in the gloam, Nay, sweetheart, what of fears and tears?—

From Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; and Other Poems by Le Gallienne, Richard