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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Word of the Day ~ Gloaming

gloaming

PRONUNCIATION:
(GLO-ming)                         
MEANING:
noun: Twilight; dusk.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle English gloming, from Old English glomung, from glom (dusk). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghel- (to shine), which is also the source of words such as yellow, gold, glimmer, glimpse, glass, arsenic, melancholy, and cholera.
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