last post
English
Noun
last post (plural last posts)
- (Britain and Canada) The sounding of a bugle, signalling the evening hour to bed down, also used at military funerals and remembrance services.
- 1876 September 30, “Drummers and Fifers”, in Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, volume 4, number 666, page 629:
- Twenty minutes is allowed for the duration of the roll-call, the commencement and finish of which are sounded on the bugle, and are called the first and last ‘posts.’
Coordinate terms
- Taps (US)
Related terms
- first post
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