"evenglome" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English ǣfenglōm, as the term began being used soon after the publication of Early England and the Saxon-English in 1869, where the word is first listed in this form. Equivalent to even + glome (“gloom”). Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|ang|ǣfenglōm}} Learned borrowing from Old English ǣfenglōm, {{nb...|With Some Notes on the Father-Stock of the Saxon-English, The Frisians}} […], {{com|en|even|glome||t2=gloom}} even + glome (“gloom”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} evenglome (uncountable)
  1. (rare, literary) Twilight; dusk; crepusculum. Tags: literary, rare, uncountable Synonyms: even-glome
    Sense id: en-evenglome-en-noun-QhKhFgtp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "To the tired traveller, in the evenglome,\nThe long way wended, welcome is the inn,\nThough narrow be the house and cold the bed,\nAt least thou shalt sleep well among thy kin.\nThe innumerous generations of the dead.",
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          "text": "Occasionally at evenglome one of the Gillie Girls would come and sit on a Rock offshore and sing to me by the light of the lilly-lows, accompanying herself on her long golden hair, which should not have sorted very well with her scaly green skin but somehow did.",
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