[AFTER- 6.] A glow or refulgence that remains after the disappearance of any light, esp. that which lights the western sky after sunset; also fig.
1873. L. Tollemache, in Fortn. Rev., Feb., 228. [The belief] … has left an after-glow of sentiment about the sacredness of life.
1877. Miss A. B. Edwards, 1000 m. up Nile, xi. 296. The sun had set, the after-glow had faded, the twilight was closing in.
1881. A. J. C. Hare, Lucca, i. in Gd. Wds., XXII. 24. The peaks … stand out black and solemn against the infinite radiance of the afterglow.
