Meaning & use
gloam
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Twilight or dusk, the soft, dim light after sunset; also used poetically as a verb meaning to grow dim or dark.
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They walked home through the gloam, the last colors fading from the sky.
The valley seemed to gloam over as evening settled in.
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Gloam is a poetic, somewhat archaic word, more often encountered today in its extended form "gloaming," as in the Scottish song "Roamin' in the Gloamin'."
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