twilight (
http://definr.com/twilight)
adj : lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down
the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the
twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"
[syn:
dusky,
twilight(a),
twilit]
n 1: a state of diffused or dim illumination [syn:
dusk]
2: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the
twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn:
dusk,
gloaming,
nightfall,
evenfall,
fall]
3: the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the
horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of
the earth
4: a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight
of the empire"