tweenlight

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The period between dusk and nightfall; twilight. dialectal,rare,uncountable
    — Faith, sir, she says that Fergus has had an outforce lying in the hills yonder these three days, and waits an opportunity of surprising the fort — that they had moved down this tweenlight, and were sweeping along by the glens two hours ago; [...]

词形变化

'tweenlight alternative 'tween-light alternative

词源

From Old English twēonlēoht (“twilight”, literally “double-/doubtful-/uncertain-light”). The alternative spellings are due to a misassociation with between, erroneously interpreting tweenlight as if it were a shortening of between-light.
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