The story
Lusco once meant squinting and fusco means dark: together they rhyme their way into the half-hour when the light is going and the lamps are not yet on. English kept an old Scots word for it, the gloaming.
lusco-fusco
loosh-koo-FOOSH-koo[ˌluʃkuˈfuʃku]
the half-light between day and night — twilight
Closest in English: twilight, dusk, gloaming. None of them covers it.
How it went in the game
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- Which language is it from?Portuguese
- How does it sound to native ears?Gentle and a little poetic
- Where would you hear it?Headlights just going on
- What does it mean?The dim light as day goes
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