From the best word-a-day website, at wordsmith.org:
serein
PRONUNCIATION:
(suh-RAN [the second syllable is nasal])
MEANING:
noun: Fine rain falling from an apparently cloudless sky, typically observed after sunset…
Word of the Moment: serein
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