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What is "crepuscule"

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crepuscule

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
crepuscule

late 14c., from Old French crépuscule (13c.), from Latin crepusculum.

Wiktionary
crepuscule

n. (context now rare English) twilight.

WordNet
crepuscule

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, crepuscle]

Wikipedia
Crépuscule

Crepuscule may refer to:

  • Twilight
  • Twilight (Wiesel novel), a novel by Elie Wiesel, originally published as Le crépuscule, au loin
  • Le Crépuscule des temps anciens (The Twilight of the Bygone Days), a novel by Nazi Boni
  • Les Disques du Crépuscule, a Belgian record label
    • Its sublabels Crépuscule Section Française, Crépuscule America, Crépuscule Au Japon or Les Images Du Crépuscule

Usage examples of "crepuscule".

In the Crepuscule, Maskelyne's Observing Suit is edging into Visibility.

Yet address any of it too intently, and like Dreams just at the Crepuscule, 'twill all vanish, unrecoverably.

You think you don't understand the whole idea, but the inability to understand came entirely from the one word you could not define, crepuscule, which means twilight or darkness.