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dusky

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dusky in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. 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 
  2. 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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