nightflood
/ˈnaɪtˌflʌd/nounVerified NewAlso in: Nachtflut (Deutsch) · nocteflujo (Español) · nuitcrue (Français)
The flood of night that rises over a neighborhood — the slow inundation of dark and quiet that comes in after the last light.
The nightflood is observable from any window: the street empties, the sounds thin, the dark deepens by degrees until the world is at high night. It recedes again at dawn, leaving the usual debris of the day on the shore.
Etym. — night + flood — the inundation metaphor for the night's slow arrival; a flood is exactly a gradual, total, reversible rise of a substance over a place.
Rel. — nightcommons · moonhours
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