last post

English

Noun

last post (plural last posts)

1. (British 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