Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:

ak>  Can an Englishmen see in the gloom? :)
            |Singular, Englishman.  Plural, Englishmen.

ak>  Is it a darkness or twilight?

   
           It could be either.  Gloom = a state of partial or total darkness. Twilight occurs near dawn or sunset when the sun is below the horizon but you can see a bit of light in the sky.  (This phenomenon apparently doesn't occur near the equator, where Kipling says "the dawn comes up like thunder".)  :-))




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