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evening guns

evening guns is the plural of evening gun.

Meaning of evening gun

Noun

evening gun (plural evening guns)

  1. 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.1897, William James, “Is Life Worth Living”, in The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
    Synonyms:
    retreat gun

Questions about evening guns

What is evening guns the plural of?
Evening guns is the plural of evening gun.

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