English

Noun

last post ‎(plural last posts)

1. (Britain and Canada) The sounding of a bugle, signalling the evening hour to bed down, also used at military funerals and remembrance services.
   • 1876, “Drummers and Fifers” in Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, v 4, n 666 (September 30), p 629:

     Twenty minutes is allowed for the duration of the roll-call, the commencement and finish of which are sounded on the bugle, and are called the first and last ‘posts.’

Synonyms

• taps (US)

Related terms

• first post