Hi,
Roger—
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Originally Posted by Roger Slater
Glenn, Merriam-Webster defines twilight as "the light from the sky between full night and sunrise or between sunset and full night produced by diffusion of sunlight through the atmosphere and its dust," which is how I use the term as well, which is the same definition as the Spanish word. But even if it were less common in English, I still think the meaning would be clear to the reader in context.
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I checked several dictionaries. About half defined twilight scientifically as a period of time when the sun is just below the horizon but its light is diffused in the atmosphere, so it could refer either to dusk or dawn.
The other half were like this example from Collins English Dictionary:
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us...glish/twilight
This seems to me to be the more common literary usage.
Glenn