shadowrim
nounUK /ˈʃædəʊrɪm/
US /ˈʃædoʊrɪm/
The dark edge around something where the light stops.
A thin shadowrim circled the lamp on the table.
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OTHER MEANINGS
2. The outer edge of a shadow itself.
She traced the shadowrim of the tree on the grass.
3. A faint dark line at the border of a picture or page.
The old photo had a soft shadowrim along one side.
4. A poetic word for the moment just before night falls.
Birds flew home across the shadowrim of the evening.