twilights
- 1Plural of twilight.
Arctic summers bring drawn-out twilights that blur the line between dusk and dawn.
The poet wrote of autumn twilights settling over the empty fields.
Note
A plural that counts what is often left uncountable. In the singular, twilight usually names the light or the hour in general (at twilight, in the twilight). The plural turns it into separate occasions, such as the long twilights of an Arctic summer, or into several fading, in-between states in the figurative sense. The same spelling, used only in the plural, is also the WAAF's slang for underwear.
- 2Long, light-colored underwear worn by women serving in the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
Each morning she pulled on her twilights before the cold barracks could chill her.
The quartermaster handed out fresh twilights to every woman on the base.
Similarbloomers, knickers, drawers
Note
Service slang from the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and a word that exists only in the plural. One wears twilights, as one wears drawers, but never a single twilight. It is historical, so it belongs in writing about the WAAF and its kit rather than in present-day talk about clothing. Outside a military setting, readers will take it as the plural of the evening light.
twilights is a form of twilight
twilight, noun: The period just before sunrise or, especially, just after sunset, when the sky is still partly lit; technically, the time when the sun is less than 18 degrees below the horizon. Full entry
- Forms
- twilighttwilights plural
- Spelling
- twilight → twilights: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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