2 December 2013

crepuscule

[kri-puhs-kyool, krep-uh-skyool]

noun

– twilight; dusk.

Also, cre·pus·cle [kri-puhs-uhl]

Origin:
1350–1400; < Latin crepuscul ( um ), equivalent to crepus- (akin to creper obscure) + -culum -cule1

Anagram

An anagram of cepuscle is: cruel puces

Today’s aphorism

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

– Socrates

On this day

2 December – International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.

2 December 1972 – death of Yip Man, Wing Chun Kung Fu grand-master. Immortalised in the movie, Ip Man. Born 1 October 1893.