DUSKY

• (adj.) naturally having skin of a dark color

  "a dark-skinned beauty", "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks", "a smile on his swarthy face", "`swart' is archaic"

  synonyms : dark-skinned , swart , swarthy

• (adj.) lighted by or as if by twilight

  "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn", "the twilight glow of the sky", "a boat on a twilit river"

  synonyms : twilight , twilit

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