"dusky" meaning in All languages combined

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          "roman": "sumračen",
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          "word": "сумрачен"
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          "sense": "dimly lit, as at dusk evening",
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          "sense": "dimly lit, as at dusk evening",
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          "word": "گردناک"
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          "word": "سیاهگون"
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          "sense": "dimly lit, as at dusk evening",
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          "text": "You have your lovers - dusky beaus / Not made of the poetic stuff / That sports an Apollonian nose, / And wears a sleek Byronic cuff.",
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          "ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 63",
          "text": "They \"stuck on\" fairly well, but sometimes these dusky jockeys fell off during the race.",
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          "ref": "1903 April 8, Queensland Figaro, Brisbane, page 23, column 2",
          "text": "The dusky sons of Mohammed have been having a high old time down at the British India Company’s wharves during the past few days. [. . .] It was the great week of ‘Hobson-Jobson,’ as it is known out East, or the time of the Mohurram.",
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    {
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    {
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    {
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          "text": "A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.",
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          "text": "The dusky sons of Mohammed have been having a high old time down at the British India Company’s wharves during the past few days. [. . .] It was the great week of ‘Hobson-Jobson,’ as it is known out East, or the time of the Mohurram.",
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      "word": "сумрачен"
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      "sense": "dimly lit, as at dusk evening",
      "word": "hämärä"
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      "word": "kaurukiruki"
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      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "dimly lit, as at dusk evening",
      "word": "tariko"
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      "sense": "dimly lit, as at dusk evening",
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      "sense": "dimly lit, as at dusk evening",
      "word": "گردناک"
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      "word": "سیاهگون"
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