Lighted by or as if by twilight
Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk;
Adjective S.
naturally having skin of a dark color; "a dark-skinned beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"; "a smile on his swarthy face"; "`swart'' is archaic"
Adjective S.
lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"
a.
Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky
valley.
a.
Tending to blackness in color; partially black;
dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown.
a.
Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
a.
Intellectually clouded.
Dusky
Through dusky lane and wrangling mart.2.
When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky.
The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur.3.
This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect.4.
Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology.
Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk;
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The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.
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