What is "crepuscle"

Crepuscle \Cre*pus"cle\ (kr[-e]*p[u^]s"s'l), Crepuscule \Cre*pus"cule\ (kr[-e]*p[u^]s"k[-u]l), n. [L. crepusculum, fr. creper dusky, dark: cf. F. cr['e]puscule.] Twilight.
--Bailey.

n. (alternative form of crepuscule English)

n. the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule]