different between twilit vs twilt

twilit

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tw??l?t, IPA(key): /?twa?l?t/

Verb

twilit

  1. simple past tense and past participle of twilight

Alternative forms

  • (simple past): twilighted
  • (past participle): twilitten, twilighted

Adjective

twilit (not comparable)

  1. Illuminated by or as if by twilight.
    • 1959, Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dial, 2006, Chapter 10, p. 241,[1]
      The effect of the closing inside the booths was to turn the line of concessions into a twilit tunnel.

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twilt

English

Etymology

See quilt.

Noun

twilt (plural twilts)

  1. (Britain, dialect) A quilt.

Verb

twilt (third-person singular simple present twilts, present participle twilting, simple past and past participle twilted)

  1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To cross-stitch in quincunx fashion so as to connect two thicknesses together.

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