Saturday, July 3, 2010

What's The Good Word?


Vespertine
\VES-per-tin\ , adjective;
1.Of, pertaining to, or occurring in the evening.
2.Botany. Opening or expanding in the evening, as certain flowers.
3.Zoology. Becoming active in the evening, as bats and owls.

Origin:
Vespertine derives from Latin vespertīnus, "evening."

Usage
To my own ear, I sound hyperpoetic, and I don't mean to exaggerate these vespertine moods; I think that this restlessness that I am describing was really quite ordinary.
-- Peter Gadol, The Long Rain

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