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Definition of Crepuscles
1. crepuscle [n] - See also: crepuscle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crepuscles
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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