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evening_gun
evening gun
English
Noun
evening gun (plural evening guns)
- (military) The firing of a gun after the last note of the retreat, signalling the lowering of the flag at sunset; the gun thus fired.
- 1897, William James, Is Life Worth Living in The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy,
- 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.
- 1897, William James, Is Life Worth Living in The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy,
See also
Synonyms
- retreat gun