Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.
Where in purple hue, the hieland hills we view / And the moon coming out in the gloaming.
Sullenness; melancholy.
present participle and gerund of gloam
From a dialectal variant of glooming, from Middle English *gloming, from Old English glōmung, from Old English glōm (“twilight”). By surface analysis, gloom + -ing. Related to glow. The OED notes: "Th...
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