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From: blp Category: Art Date: 26 February 2007 Time: 09:35 AM Review: A beautiful word, perhaps not used strictly correctly here, but excusable in the service of poetry. Dictionary.com has: the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. also the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. also a shadowy, indefinite, or marginal area.