MEANING
Of or occurring in the evening.
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- vespertine quiet
- vespertine flowering
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A vespertine quiet settled over the terraces.
The vespertine flowers opened as the last visitors departed.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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