evenfall

English

Etymology

From even (“evening”) +‎ fall. Compare nightfall.

Noun

evenfall (countable and uncountable, plural evenfalls)

1. (poetic) dusk, twilight
   • 1905, Katharine Tynan, “The Exile”, in Innocencies, London: A. H. Bullen, page 15:

     The wind that blows across them calls
     Ever at dawns and evenfalls,
     And I am suddenly forlorn.
     Across the pastures and ripe corn
     I see the mountains in my dreams.

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     Arriving at Brinkley in the quiet evenfall and putting the old machine away in the garage, I noticed that Aunt Dahlia's car was there and gathered from this that the aged relative was around and about once more.

Synonyms

• crepusculum, mirkning, nightfall; see also Thesaurus:dusk