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• s  lighted by or as if by twilight
  The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding
• s  naturally having skin of a dark color
  gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks

• Instead, gilt letters spell it out on a dusky rose wall inside: Victoria's Secret.
• Washington's dusky gorgeousness in Imitation of Life must have scared Hollywood bosses even as it tempted them.
• Wimbledon's haughtiness gets upstaged by the dusky daughter of an Australian sheepshearer and a fair young girl from the middle-class groves of Florida.

• twilight
• twilit
• dark-skinned
• swart
• swarthy

News & Articles

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• Low Offer 'Twilight Zone' Twist in 'Plastic Cup' Video
  Low marry grit and glamour in the video for "Plastic Cup," the dusky opening track from recent LP
  June 13, 2013 - Spin
• Staff pick: Mount Moriah’s Southern rock is plainspoken but sneakily satisfying
  When Chapel Hill guitarist Jenks Miller isn’t plumbing Greek mythology with his metal project Horseback, he’s naming his dusky, female-fronted alt-country band after a mountain from the Bible. The guy got a lot out of his comparative religion courses.
  June 12, 2013 - Columbus Alive

Quotes

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• Mira Nair in St. Paul Asian American Press
  I long to see my own people through my camera, one that will move fluidly between New York and Calcutta,states Nair in the production notes. "I wanted to film a dusky Bengali beauty against a Mark Rothko painting in a stark Manhattan...
• Maggie Siggins in The Gazette (Montreal)
  But after a month's reststop at Fort William, Siggins writes, "Marie-Anne was probably beginning to lose her dread of Aboriginal people, seeing them not as an amorphous, dusky-skinned mass, but as individuals with crooked or straight noses, big or...
• Bruno Tonioli in Entertainment Tonight News
  Bruno commented, "You are such a dusky beauty. It reminds me of Princess Jasmine in 'Aladdin,' but you need to make it more available."