Definition of "gloam" [gloam]

• Archaic Twilight; gloaming. (noun)

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• ""gloam" is the word from the crossword puzzle that we couldn't figure out! so we made up the word g'voam instead."
• "Sitting up on one of the lion sculptures, alone in the dusky gloam, Rovender Kitt stared out at the skies as the top of the sun sank below the inky landscape."
• "The bullet from nowhere, the theody in the gloam, the silent stones: a true mystery and its answer are one."