crepusculeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle French crepuscule m, ultimately from Latin crepusculum n.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkɹɛp.ʊˌskjuːl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /kɹɪˈpʌs.kjul/, /ˈkɹɛp.əˌskjul/

名詞

crepuscule (plural crepuscules)

1. (now rare) Twilight.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 54:

     Van watched them with the same pleasurable awe he had experienced as a child, when, lost in the purple crepuscule of an Italian hotel garden, in an alley of cypresses, he supposed they were golden ghouls or the passing fancies of the garden.

同意語

• blue hour, gloaming; see also Thesaurus:twilight

関連する語

• crepuscular

参考

• smokefall
• crepusculum