evenfall

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English

Etymology

From even (evening) +‎ fall. Compare nightfall.

Noun

evenfall (countable and uncountable, plural evenfalls)

  1. (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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