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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.
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firing of a gun
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- Finnish: iltalaukaus
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