I was familiar with the word vesper, so I knew what this meant, but the sentence is too good not to share, and it’s true that this use of the word is new to me.
Vespertine – of, relating to, or occurring in the evening
The sentence, still from The Orchard Keeper:
“They moved out under the dark trees, through a stand of young cedars gathered in a clearing, vespertine figures, rotund and druidical in their black solemnity.”
Jonas David 