gloaming \GLOH-ming\, noun:
Twilight; dusk.
The period between afternoon and nighttime.

It was the gloaming, when a man cannot make out if the nebulous figure he glimpses in the shadows is angel or demon, when the face of evening is stained by red clouds and wounded by lights.
–Homero Aridjis, 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile (translated by Betty Ferber)

Arrived at the village station on a wintry evening, when the gloaming is punctuated by the cheery household lamps, shining here and there like golden stars, through the leafless trees.
— Margaret Sangster

The gloaming is the twilight of the day. It’s the period between darkness and light. It’s a time of magic. It’s the time between the fear of ensuing darkness and the excitement of the stepping into the unknown; the ending of the day’s long work and entering into a magical world that lies on the edge of mundane. The gloaming symbolizes intertwining of the dark and light that creates the beauty of story.
–Brian Herod