CREPUSCULAR – my new favorite word
Posted By drsao on April 19, 2009
Now, I USUALLY don’t comment on Dictionary.com.
I get a daily e-mail which includes the word for the day – and I enjoy that a lot. But rarely do I get inspired enough to pass this on…….however……..
Today’s word just made me giggle – who knows why!
But CREPUSCULAR is now my new favorite word….I thought I would post this so you will know what I am saying…….LOL
You could call someone a CREPUSCULAR WIT and they might think it was a compliment!
Word of the Day for Sunday, April 19, 2009
crepuscular \kri-PUS-kyuh-lur\, adjective:
1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling twilight; dim.
2. (Zoology) Appearing or active at twilight.
I’ve been through their checkout and noted its resemblance to Hades – the crepuscular gloom, the dungeon lighting, the mile-long shuffling queue, the glum, sickly faces, the trolleys piled high with flat-pack cardboard units.
— John Walsh, “btw”, Independent, February 12, 2005
In the crepuscular lobby, a broad circle of monitors laid on their backs on the floor blinked up at a laser show spiraling across a tentlike scrim stretched just below the building’s blacked-out skylight.
— David Joselit, “Planet Paik – Nam June Paik’s works”, Art in America, June, 2000
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