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noun

Sunsetting, Sunset n.

The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively. "'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore."

Hence, the region where the sun sets; the west.

Sunset shell (Zool.), a West Indian marine bivalve (Tellina radiata) having a smooth shell marked with radiating bands of varied colors resembling those seen at sunset or before sunrise; called also rising sun.

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Etymology of 'Sunset'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sunset" Quotes from Famous Books

... an old maid's property, and by her own hands. And there is the 'Cat's Monument,' too. Come! don't stop to talk about it, but let us go and see it. It will be just the thing for a last evening; in memoriam, you know, and all that. Get on your hat, and come, and we shall see the sunset meeting the moonrise on the river ...

— The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 - A Typographic Art Journal • Various

... advancing from darkness to light; each stage terminating in greater clearness and brightness; they were moving steadily forward to the perfect dawn. And it is a curious fact that the Israelites, even now, commence the day with the period of darkness: they begin their Sabbath on Friday at sunset. ...

— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly

... be at the church in an hour, but it will be time enough if you come at twenty-three o'clock—between twenty-two and twenty-three." This means between one hour and two hours before sunset. "The light is good then, for there is a big west window," added Gianbattista ...

— Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster • F. Marion Crawford

... to tell her the time; she had almost forgotten that she had asked him. With the silence of sunset a languor, the indolence of content, crept over her; she saw him close his watch with the absent-minded air which she already associated with him, and she let the question go from sheer disinclination for ...

— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers

... sunset that evening, Sancho Mendez was publicly hanged. Confessing the crime, he was carried to the rude gibbet at the far edge of the wheat field and paid the price in full. He had been tried by a jury of twelve; ...

— West Wind Drift • George Barr McCutcheon

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