dimpsey

Definitions

The time in the evening just before dusk.

Cornwall, Devon, UK, West-Country

Examples

“She sat telling with the old Jane a good two hours, for 'twas getting dimpsey when she started up hill to Grange, and that she took easy as she was getting a bit stoutish, and it made her bad to hurry⟳.”

“If we two poor wayfarers could have⟳ sat quietly beside each other and chatted in 'e dimpsey light⟳, it would not have⟳ been a bit bad, but there was something eternally doing.”

“There was the river: woodland paths skirting in the evening a world of silver and grey, across which bats sketched zigzag flights. Very nice in the dimpsey light⟳, but stuffy in the daytime.”

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