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cimmerian
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synonyms: crepuscular, tenebrous, darkling, penumbrous, caliginous, aphotic, crepusculine ???
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Definition:{adj} gloomy and dark{n} from Greek mythology: one of the beings inhabing a land of perpetual darkness
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The Cimmerian darkness which surrounded Van Twiller's inamorata left us free to indulge in the wildest conjectures.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Mademmoiselle Olympe Zabriski
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beneath its eternal fogs, as though it were indeed the land of the Cimmerians in the Odyssey.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way
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