evenglome
/ˈi.vənˌɡloʊm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "They are like men who have lived always in broad day—who have never seen evenglome or moonlight."
- "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 :[…]"
- "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."
- "IN THE DUSK of the evenglome, Darric Boarson and four archers of his free company rode to the edge of Bellesmane Wood."
- "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."
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. By surface analysis, even + glome (“gloom”).
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈi.vənˌɡloʊm/
- British English: /ˈiː.vənˌɡləʊm/
Usage
Inflected Forms
even-glome (alternative)