evening gun

English

Noun

evening gun (plural evening guns)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• retreat gun

Translations

firing of a gun

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: iltalaukaus

See also

• morning gun