A poetic or archaic term for the soft, dimming light that occurs as evening approaches and darkness begins to fall.
From Middle English 'even' (evening) + 'glome' (to become dark or gloomy), with 'glome' possibly deriving from Old English 'glomung' meaning twilight or dusk. The word evolved in Middle English poetry to describe the transitional period between day and complete night.
This beautifully obsolete word shows how English once had many poetic ways to describe light at different times of day—words we've largely replaced with simpler terms like 'dusk' or 'twilight,' losing linguistic color along the way.
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