"evening gun" meaning in English

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          "text": "Coordinate term: morning gun"
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          "text": "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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        "The firing of a gun after the last note of the retreat, signalling the lowering of the flag at sunset; the gun thus fired."
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        "(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."
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          "word": "starting gun"
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        {
          "word": "taps"
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          "word": "retreat gun"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "firing of a gun",
          "word": "晚砲"
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          "roman": "wǎnpào",
          "sense": "firing of a gun",
          "word": "晚炮"
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          "sense": "firing of a gun",
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        "(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."
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "firing of a gun",
      "word": "晚砲"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "sense": "firing of a gun",
      "word": "晚炮"
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