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auroral

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auroral [ə′rȯr·əl]
(astronomy)
The period of dusk before sunrise.


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VIGILANS--The Laws of Auroral Derangements are still imperfectly understood.
To my imagination it retained throughout the day more or less of this auroral character, reminding me of a certain house on a mountain which I had visited a year before.
High overhead was the spirit-like blue of paling skies; the east was a great arc of crystal, smitten through with auroral crimsonings; just above it was one milk-white star of morning, like a pearl on a silver sea.
 
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