Now rare. [a. F. crépuscule, ad. L. crepusculum: see below.] Twilight.
c. 1391. Chaucer, Astrol., II. § 6. The spring of the dawyng and the ende of the euenyng, the which ben called the two crepusculus. Ibid., § 9. Know the quantite of thi crepusculis.
1789. Mrs. Piozzi, Journ. France, II. 202. The crepuscule [is] less abrupt in its departure.
1819. H. Busk, Banquet, II. 41. Coeval with the crepuscule of morn.
1860. Mrs. P. Byrne, Undercurrents Overlooked, I. 207. At early dawn or dusty noon, in foggy crepuscule or gloomy midnight.
1866. J. B. Rose, trans. Ovid’s Fasti, V. 183. And when the doubtful crepuscule is gone The Hyades appear.
