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dusky in WordNet English dictionary
adjective- 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"
dark-skinned dusky swart swarthy
- 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"
dusky twilight twilit
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