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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
gloaming
 
SYLLABICATION:gloam·ing
PRONUNCIATION:  glmng
NOUN: Twilight; dusk.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English gloming, from Old English glmung, alteration (probably influenced by æfnung, evening) of glm, dusk; see ghel-2 in Appendix I.
 
 
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