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Duskiness

noun
1.
The state of being poorly illuminated.  Synonym: dimness.
2.
A swarthy complexion.  Synonyms: darkness, swarthiness.





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"Duskiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... around the room. He had made so much concession to his nervous feeling that he had not turned the gas quite out, as was his custom. The dim duskiness made him shudder; he expected to see the Huckleberry Street Irish woman looking at him. But he shook off his terror a little, uttered another malediction on the man that invented Christmas ghost stories, concluded ...
— Duffels • Edward Eggleston
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... perhaps about his success," she said quietly, her gaze just beyond the ears of her horse. The young man dared now to look at her—a child of the sun despite her duskiness. Eagerly he awaited the deep, lustrous eyes that would presently sweep round upon him, big and dark and sparkling. When she turned her head, they were full of that new womanly dignity that yet did not obscure the ...
— Mavericks • William MacLeod Raine
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Words linked to "Duskiness" :   swarthiness, dusky, skin colour, dimness, complexion, skin color, semidarkness


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