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dimpsey

1. (Britain, West Country, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset) The time in the evening just before dusk.
   • 1896, Knocker, Gratiana Longworth, “Of the Evil Doings of Nance Darvel”, in The Witch of Withyford‎^[1], page 11:

     She sat telling with the old Jane a good two hours, for 'twas getting dimpsey when she started up hill to Grange, and that she took easy as she was getting a bit stoutish, and it made her bad to hurry.

   • 1910, Wiggin, Kate Douglas; Findlater, Mary; Findlater, Jane; McAulay, Allan, chapter VI, in The Affair at the Inn:

     If we two poor wayfarers could have sat quietly beside each other and chatted in 'e dimpsey light, it would not have been a bit bad, but there was something eternally doing.

   • 1915, Ritchie, Sir Lewis Anselm da Costa, “An Off-Shore Wind”, in A Tall Ship:

     There was the river: woodland paths skirting in the evening a world of silver and grey, across which bats sketched zigzag flights. Very nice in the dimpsey light, but stuffy in the daytime.