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English
Etymology
From even (“evening”) + fall. Compare nightfall.
Noun
evenfall (countable and uncountable, plural evenfalls)
- (poetic) dusk, twilight
1905, Katharine Tynan, “The Exile”, in Innocencies, London: A. H. Bullen, page 15:The wind that blows across them calls
Ever at dawns and evenfalls,
And I am suddenly forlorn.
Across the pastures and ripe corn
I see the mountains in my dreams.
1960, P G Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:Arriving at Brinkley in the quiet evenfall and putting the old machine away in the garage, I noticed that Aunt Dahlia's car was there and gathered from this that the aged relative was around and about once more.
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