"evening gun" meaning in English

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      "form": "evening guns",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1897, William James, “Is Life Worth Living”, in The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy",
          "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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      "glosses": [
        "The firing of a gun after the last note of the retreat, signalling the lowering of the flag at sunset; the gun thus fired."
      ],
      "id": "en-evening_gun-en-noun-hFBtBS5U",
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        [
          "retreat",
          "retreat"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "morning gun"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "retreat gun"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "firing of a gun",
          "word": "iltalaukaus"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "evening gun"
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        }
      ],
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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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        "politics",
        "war"
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      "word": "retreat gun"
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      "sense": "firing of a gun",
      "word": "iltalaukaus"
    }
  ],
  "word": "evening gun"
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