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[dəsk]

(astronomy)

That part of either morning or evening twilight between complete darkness and civil twilight.

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The fear I felt was no rational fear, but a panic terror not only of the Martians, but of the dusk and stillness all about me.

The door of the little house opened, and a warm glow of firelight flickered out into the dusk.

In the dusk this place was shadowy, and the view was hampered by the clustering trunks.

So I proposed to help her a little, after I had read to her, for I had plenty of time that evening, and need not return till dusk.

They lingered in the old garden until twilight, sweet as dusk in Eden must have been, crept over it.

His eyes shone brightly out of the dusk under the trees.

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