OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 37508

afterglow

Meanings (ES + gloss)
arrebol • resplandor crepuscular
The glow seen in the sky after sunset.
Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.
That the sunset in Egypt is gorgeous, every body knows; but I, for one, was not aware that there is a renewal of beauty, some time after the sun has departed and left all grey. […]…
sensación de bienestar
The mildly euphoric feeling experienced after a pleasurable experience, especially after an orgasm or drug-induced high.
She herself had grown old as people should grow old—steadily and firmly. No interruptions, no belated after-glows and spasmodic returns.
[…] he threw down his book, stretched his legs towards the embers in the grate, and clasped his hands at the back of his head, in that agreeable afterglow of excitement when though…
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