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that gold-blue hush between day and dark where the world holds its breath.
means The gloaming is twilight — the dim, fading light just after sunset (or sometimes just before sunrise).
from From the Old English 'glōm,' meaning twilight, which is related to 'glōwan,' to glow — the same root that gives us 'gloom.' So the word literally holds a little of that low, smouldering light. It thrived in Scots and northern English speech, and was carried into wider literary English largely by Scottish poets, which is why 'gloaming' still carries a faint heathery, ballad-like ring.
- old roots
- From Old English glom, kin to glow
- scots favorite
- Burns and Stevenson loved the word
- blue hour
- Painters chase its rare cool light
- not dusk
- Lingers softer and longer than twilight
for instance
the gloaming hbo series — hbo drama starring claire danes and glenn close, 2021