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sundown, sun-down|ˈsʌndaʊn|
[Perh. a shortening of sun-go-down or sun-gate-down (see sun n.1 13).]
1. The going down of the sun; the time when the sun goes down; also, the glow of sunset; = sunset 1, 1 b; the west. Chiefly U.S., Eng. dial., and S.Afr., Austral., etc.; occas. poet. or rhetorical.
1620Depos. Bk. Archdeaconries Essex & Colch. 24 Nov. lf. 174 (MS.), Aboute two howers before sunne downe. 1744W. Black Jrnl. 1 June in Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. (1877) I. 408 We staid till near Sun-down at Mr. Strettell's Villa. 1813in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. XVII. 168 Solid dames of Boston, go to bed at sun-down, And never lose your way, like the loggerheads of London! 1827J. F. Cooper Prairie ii, Have you been far towards the sun-down, friend? 1850Tennyson In Mem. xli, Oft when sundown skirts the moor. 1853M. Arnold Scholar Gypsy iii, Screen'd is this nook..And here till sun-down, Shepherd, will I be. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. ix. (1891) 212 The Puritan ‘Sabbath’..began at ‘sundown’ on Saturday evening. 1873Morley Rousseau II. 315 A mournful sombre figure, looming shadowily in the dark glow of sundown. 1896Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign xi, I signed his warrant, directing that he should be shot at sundown.
2. A hat with a wide brim. U.S.
1873Kansas Mag. Sept. 207/2 A flaring sun-down dangled by its strings. 1888Century Mag. Sept. 769/1 Young faces of those days seemed as sweet and winning under wide-brimmed ‘sun⁓downs’ or old-time ‘pokes’ as [etc.].
3. U.S. colloq. Used attrib. to designate one who practises as a doctor or lawyer, etc., outside normal working hours or in addition to his principal occupation. Cf. sundowner 3.
1897Boston Transcript 5 Aug. 5/1 There are sundown doctors, sundown lawyers and sundown ministers. 1904L. Derville Other Side of Story 42 A sundown doctor..[is] a doctor who practices his vocation after four o'clock, when he can leave his desk in some Government office. 1949Sun (Baltimore) 29 June 8/3 Attorneys practising in the county without maintaining offices there have come to be known as ‘sundown’ lawyers. |