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Penumbral

adjective
1.
Of or pertaining to the region of partial shadow around an umbra.





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"Penumbral" Quotes from Famous Books



... awake a long time putting her scheme into final shape, and then for an interval that seemed longer she hung poised in those penumbral regions midway between wakefulness and slumber. Through her mind meanwhile there passed a whirling phantasmagoria, an interminable procession of figures, of memories, real yet unreal, convincing yet unconvincing. When she did at last lose all awareness of reality the effect was merely ...
— Rainbow's End • Rex Beach


Words linked to "Penumbral" :   penumbra


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