Both Uses
twilight
in
The Contender, by Lipsyte
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- He waited on the stoop until twilight, pretending to watch the sun melt into the dirty gray Harlem sky.
Chpt 1 *twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness (in this case, just after sunset)
- Men and women were coming home from work in the early twilight.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(twilight as in: pink clouds in a twilight sky) the time of day between daylight and darkness (just after sunset or just before sunrise); or the light from the sky at that time
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(2)
(twilight as in: the twilight of her career) a condition of decline following successes
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, twilight can refer to