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(adj) dark-skinned, swart, swarthy
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
lighted by or as if by twilight
The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn-Henry Fielding; the twilight glow of the sky; a boat on a twilit river