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1
a time or place of little or no light
- lovers would often retreat to the gloaming of the park's many secluded recesses to steal a kiss
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- blaze,
- brightness,
- brilliance,
- day,
- daylight,
- glare,
- glow,
- light,
- lightness
2
the time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness
- with the gloaming came the familiar call of the whip-poor-will
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