evening gun

noun

Definitions

  1. The firing of a gun after the last note of the retreat, signalling the lowering of the…

    The firing of a gun after the last note of the retreat, signalling the lowering of the flag at sunset; the gun thus fired.

    • That life is not worth living the whole army of suicides declare,—an army whose roll-call, like the famous evening gun of the British army, follows the sun round the world and never terminates.

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