evenglome

English

Alternative forms

• even-glome

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”).

Noun

evenglome (uncountable)

1. (rare, literary) Twilight; dusk; crepusculum. [from 1860s]
   • 1870, Mortimer Collins, “The Chicard Experiment” (chapter XXXVI), in The Vivian Romance, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 95, column 2:

     They are like men who have lived always in broad day—who have never seen evenglome or moonlight.

   • 1889, William Brighty Rands, “Flowers and Snow”, in Thomas Archer, editor, Our Sunday Book of Reading and Pictures, Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh, page 211:

     It was the pleasing summer time.
     When winds were soft as rose or rhyme,
     And, in the soothing evenglome,
     The windows of an English home,
     Open at dusk, let odours in
     Of lily and early jessamine,
     And mignonette, and linden flowers,
     Late-lingering in their leafy bowers : […]

   • 1921, John Payne, The Way of the Winepress‎^[1], John Payne Society:

     To the tired traveller, in the evenglome,
     The long way wended, welcome is the inn,
     Though narrow be the house and cold the bed,
     At least thou shalt sleep well among thy kin.
     The innumerous generations of the dead.

   • 1943, Franklin Davey McDowell, chapter VIII, in Forges of Freedom, Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, page 96:

     IN THE DUSK of the evenglome, Darric Boarson and four archers of his free company rode to the edge of Bellesmane Wood.

   • 1975 January, Evelyn E. Smith, Unpopular Planet, Dell Publishing, page 331:

     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.