crepuscule*

don't you just love it when you hear a word you hardly ever hear let alone use and the very next day you can actually get to use it in context; the word was 'crepuscular' as in beavers are crepuscular creatures and this evening on my after-office walk in the woods I almost tripped over another such creature, a tiny hedgehog

without(above) and with flash (below)

I did apologise to this small crepuscular being for scaring him with my bright light, but I wanted to make certain I got an image of him; hope I haven't left him in such a bewildered state, he remains transfixed; he looks very small, perhaps after a winter's sleep he lost a lot of weight and now needs to start replenishing his body, that or he is a young one

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Noun

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crepuscule - the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" crepuscle, dusk, evenfall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight, fall even, evening, eventide, eve - the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake" night - a shortening of nightfall; "they worked from morning to night" time of day, hour - clock time; "the hour is getting late"

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twilight; dusk.

[1350–1400; < Latin crepuscul(um)=crepus- (akin to creper obscure) + -culum -cule¹]

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