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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

... was flame from sea to zenith across Manila Bay. It was like a great Flame of the Forest tree in full bloom. Against this sky of flaming sunset-clouds, hundreds of ships, anchored in the bay, lit their lesser crimson lights; while, now and then, a battleship which was signaling to another ship, flashed its message of light against the fading glow of ...

— Flash-lights from the Seven Seas • William L. Stidger

... of the Blest Our seamen sought of old, The dream that lured the nations through the West, The city of sunset gold. ...

— The New Morning - Poems • Alfred Noyes

... the globe. At the most northern nesting site the midnight sun has already appeared before the birds' arrival, and it never sets during their entire stay at the breeding grounds. During two months of their sojourn in the Antarctic the birds do not see a sunset, and for the rest of the time the sun dips only a little way below the horizon and broad daylight is continuous. The birds, therefore, have twenty-four hours of daylight for at least {75} eight months in the year, and during ...

— The Bird Study Book • Thomas Gilbert Pearson

... a quiet, secluded corner; but we are near the quarry woods, and there are such lovely walks. And then the bay; it is not the real open sea you know, but it is so pretty; and we sit on the rocks sometimes to watch the sunset. Oh, I should not like to live ...

— Our Bessie • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... where the river narrowed and became boisterous and terrible. The beauty of the scene cannot be conveyed in language. The one side of the valley was blue with evening shadow, through which loomed forest and precipice, hillside and mountain top; and the other was still brilliant with the sunset gold. The wide and wasteful river with its ceaseless rushing—the beautiful water-birds too, which abounded upon the islets and were so tame that we could come close up to them—the ineffable purity of the air—the solemn peacefulness of the ...

— Erewhon • Samuel Butler

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