Definition of Crepuscles

1. Noun. (plural of crepuscle) ¹

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Definition of Crepuscles

1. crepuscle [n] - See also: crepuscle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crepuscles

crepitant rale
crepitate
crepitated
crepitates
crepitating
crepitation
crepitation rale
crepitations
crepitous
crepitus
creplach
crepon
crepons
crept
crepuscle
crepuscles (current term)
crepuscular
crepuscular ray
crepuscular rays
crepuscularities
crepuscularity
crepuscularly
crepuscule
crepuscules
crepusculine
crepusculous
crepusculum
crepy
crerarite
cresc

Literary usage of Crepuscles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1877)
"The crepuscles, or streaks of light from the sun, must not be mistaken for the zodiacal light; the former are sometimes visible between twilight and dark, ..."

2. An Experimental Inquiry Into the Nature and Propagation of Heat by John Leslie (1804)
"But Lambert has investigated geometrically the succession of crepuscles, and has proved, besides the primary one, the existence of a second, a third, ..."

3. An Experimental Inquiry Into the Nature and Propagation of Heat by John Leslie (1804)
"But Lambert has investigated geometrically the succession of crepuscles, and has proved, besides the primary one, the existence of a second, a third, ..."

4. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1821)
"... its blank spaces between, properly called the crepuscles of a cheerful dawn, may take their seat on the dark pupils of the worldly-experienced ..."

5. Maritime Geography and Statistics by James Kingston Tuckey (1815)
"Moreover, the six days navigation from the north extremity of Britain, the night reduced to two or three hours [by long crepuscles], the culture of millet ..."

6. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies (1821)
"... can be borne with satisfaction on the white surface of the eye, and its blank spaces between, properly called the crepuscles of a cheerful dawn, ..."

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