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last post en · NOUN
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(Canada, UK) The sounding of a bugle, signalling the evening hour to bed down, also used at military funerals and remembrance services.
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.’
1876 September 30, “Drummers and Fifers”, in Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, volume 4, number 666, page 629:
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