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n. - The time of day immediately following sunset.

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  • Fresh off Broadway ... six quirky students come face-to-face with all their insecurities and puberty while under pressure to spell words like "crepuscule" correctly.
  • Along the way, Sheinkin has fun lobbing insanely difficult and obscure words (such as crepuscule, phylactery and elangues) into her young contestants 'laps like live...
  • I try to avoid abstract words, or poetical words, you know, like crepuscule, for example.
  • On winter dusks, robin ticks and wren flourishes made a percussive crepuscule for the settling wood.
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