sundownn.

Brit.

/ˈsʌndaʊn/, U.S.

/ˈsənˌdaʊn/

Forms: see sun n.¹ and down adv.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sun n.¹, down adv.

Etymology: < sun n.¹ + down adv., perhaps as a shortening of sun go down adv. and n. or sun going down n. at sun n.¹ Compounds 5a. Compare earlier sun gate down n. at sun n.¹ Compounds 5a, and also earlier sunup n.

a. The time in the evening when the sun disappears or daylight fades; sunset.In modern English less common than the standard sunset in all regions; most commonly and widely used in North America. N.E.D. (1913) characterizes the word as found chiefly in American, English regional, and British colonial use.

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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > sunset

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sun restc1405

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sun sitting?a1475

falling1555

sunsetting1575

downsetting1582

sunfall1582

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sun go down1595

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daylight gate1613

sundown1620

set of day1623

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sun-under1865

1620 Depos. Bk. Archdeaconries Essex & Colchester (MS) 24 Nov. lf. 174 Aboute two howers before sunne downe.

1744 W. Black Jrnl. 1 June in Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. (1877) 1 408 We staid till near Sun-down at Mr. Strettell's Villa.

1780 I. Foster Def. Relig. Liberty 151 About sun-down they came to the meeting-house.

1813 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1814) 17 168 Solid dames of Boston, go to bed at sun-down, And never lose your way, like the loggerheads of London!

1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in Poems (new ed.) 202 Screen'd is this nook..And here till sun-down, Shepherd, will I be.

1897 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign xi. 297 I signed his warrant, directing that he should be shot at sundown.

1918 W. Cather My Ántonia i. ii. 14 He promised to rope a steer for me before sundown next day.

1957 H. G. Lamond Dingo ix. 95 An hour before sundown he stretched himself, yawned, rose to his feet, sensed the wind.

2016 Meridian Booster (Lloydminster, Canada) (Nexis) 8 June a7 Working day after day from sun-up till sun-down requires a passion and love for what you do.

b. The colours and light visible in the sky at sunset, considered as a view or spectacle; the sunset.Very rare in contrast with the use of sunset in the same sense.

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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > twilight > glow of sunset or evening twilight

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twilight1412

setting sun1560

aftershine1834

afterglow1848

sundown1850

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1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xl. 63 Oft when sundown skirts the moor.

1911 W. Le Queux Hushed Up! ii. 18 His face turned to the crimson sundown showing across the dark edge of the forest.

1996 D. H. George Lonely Other iii. 142 I have watched a spectacular sundown over the rooftop of the Mini-Mart across the street.

2. U.S. A kind of sun hat. Now rare (historical in later use).

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > with a brim > broad-brimmed

umbrel1688

umbrellaa1803

wind-cuttera1834

broad-brim1855

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sundown1870

1870 D. G. Brinton & G. H. Napheys Laws Health Relation Human Form 226 Now-a-days, we are content to parry its attacks with parasols, veils, and ‘sundowns’.

1873 Kansas Mag. Sept. 207/2 A flaring sun-down dangled by its strings.

1888 Cent. 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.].

1948 E. N. Dick Dixie Frontier 297 In the summer linen or straw sundowns (sunbonnets) were the normal headgear.

Phrases

U.S. In prepositional phrases referring to the American Midwest or Far West, as beyond sundown, towards the sundown. Now historical.

ΚΠ

1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie I. ii. 43 Have you been far towards the sun-down, friend?

1846 Hancock Eagle (Nauvoo, Illinois) 10 Apr. i. 5 Captain Sutter..recommends those who intend seeking a new home beyond ‘sun-down’, to get there as soon as possible, in order that they may be able to secure lands gratis.

2012 B. Cogburn Panhandle 391 He preferred to exist in the bygone, way out beyond sundown, in that faded land where the broncy ones still roamed.

Compounds

C1. attributive. U.S. colloquial. Designating the American Midwest or Far West, or a point in this region, as sundown land, sundown rim, etc. Also figurative.

ΚΠ

1846 Oregon Spectator 30 Apr. 2/2 We shall soon have to give in our sundown position to some enterprising typo.

1895 Amer. Bee Jrnl. 27 June 412/2 If he persists in going to the ‘Sundown Land’,..no doubt a royal welcome awaits him ‘beyond the Rockies’.

1908 G. B. Russell Four Score & More ii. 19 He was not concerned to learn of the success or results of the pony post to the sundown country.

1948 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 15 May 32/3 Pacific Books, a publishing house along the country's sundown rim, has brought out this entertaining book.

1990 G. A. Carrington Comanche War vii. 56 He says somewhere to the west or south of here. The sundown land.

2007 K. Lincoln White Boyz Blues i. 19 As I see it, the frontier ‘out west’ shadows the sundown edge of civilization.

C2. U.S. colloquial. Used attributively to designate a person who works outside normal hours in addition to his or her regular employment, as sundown doctor, sundown lawyer, etc. Cf. sundowner n. 4. Now rare.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [adjective] > having more than one job

sundown1891

1891 Davenport (Iowa) Morning Tribune 7 Jan. I was curious when I heard a sundown doctor mentioned during a visit.

1897 Boston Transcript 5 Aug. 5/1 There are sundown doctors, sundown lawyers and sundown ministers.

1904 L. 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.

1949 Sun (Baltimore) 29 June 8/3 Attorneys practising in the county without maintaining offices there have come to be known as ‘sundown’ lawyers.

1956 Greenville (Texas) Banner 17 Apr. 6/3 Why should the people of this country be taxed to subsidize..sundown farmers, doctor and lawyer farmers, subsistence farmers, and ‘family’ farmers?

C3.

sundown town n. U.S. (in the period of racial segregation, in certain parts of the United States) a town in which black people face intimidation, harassment, attack, or forcible expulsion if they remain overnight or go outside after sunset; cf. don't let the sun go down (also set) on you at sun n.¹ Phrases 2a(a)(iii).Quot. 1907 shows isolated earlier use in sense ‘a town in which all businesses or other establishments are closed by sunset’, with reference to the town's new-found respectability after outlawing gambling.

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1907 Salt Lake Tribune 9 July 13/4 In less than a week after the new fellows took hold Pueblo was a sun-down town. Not a gambling house was left open.]

1936 J. E. Seville Like Spreading Tree i. 11 The ‘sundown’ towns of white faces where a Negro may not be found after dark with safety.

1995 J. M. Loewen Lies my Teacher told Me (1996) v. 165 Some small communities in the Midwest and West became ‘sundown’ towns, informally threatening African Americans with death if they remained overnight.

2011 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Oct. 79/6 Almost no other novel treats the creation of sundown towns. Gone by Sundown thus amounts to a one-volume antidote to American amnesia.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sundown
释义	sundownn. Brit. /ˈsʌndaʊn/, U.S. /ˈsənˌdaʊn/ Forms: see sun n.¹ and down adv. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sun n.¹, down adv. Etymology: < sun n.¹ + down adv., perhaps as a shortening of sun go down adv. and n. or sun going down n. at sun n.¹ Compounds 5a. Compare earlier sun gate down n. at sun n.¹ Compounds 5a, and also earlier sunup n. 1. a. The time in the evening when the sun disappears or daylight fades; sunset.In modern English less common than the standard sunset in all regions; most commonly and widely used in North America. N.E.D. (1913) characterizes the word as found chiefly in American, English regional, and British colonial use. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > sunset sunsetOE settle-gangc1000 evensongc1330 sun going downa1382 setc1386 decline14.. sun restc1405 sun gate down1440 sunsetting1440 sun sitting?a1475 falling1555 sunsetting1575 downsetting1582 sunfall1582 declining1588 sun go down1595 tramontation1599 vail1609 daylight gate1613 sundown1620 set of day1623 dayset1633 day shutting1673 sky setting1683 sun-under1865 1620 Depos. Bk. Archdeaconries Essex & Colchester (MS) 24 Nov. lf. 174 Aboute two howers before sunne downe. 1744 W. Black Jrnl. 1 June in Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. (1877) 1 408 We staid till near Sun-down at Mr. Strettell's Villa. 1780 I. Foster Def. Relig. Liberty 151 About sun-down they came to the meeting-house. 1813 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1814) 17 168 Solid dames of Boston, go to bed at sun-down, And never lose your way, like the loggerheads of London! 1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in Poems (new ed.) 202 Screen'd is this nook..And here till sun-down, Shepherd, will I be. 1897 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign xi. 297 I signed his warrant, directing that he should be shot at sundown. 1918 W. Cather My Ántonia i. ii. 14 He promised to rope a steer for me before sundown next day. 1957 H. G. Lamond Dingo ix. 95 An hour before sundown he stretched himself, yawned, rose to his feet, sensed the wind. 2016 Meridian Booster (Lloydminster, Canada) (Nexis) 8 June a7 Working day after day from sun-up till sun-down requires a passion and love for what you do. b. The colours and light visible in the sky at sunset, considered as a view or spectacle; the sunset.Very rare in contrast with the use of sunset in the same sense. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > twilight > glow of sunset or evening twilight gloamingc1000 twilight1412 setting sun1560 aftershine1834 afterglow1848 sundown1850 afterlight1923 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xl. 63 Oft when sundown skirts the moor. View more context for this quotation 1911 W. Le Queux Hushed Up! ii. 18 His face turned to the crimson sundown showing across the dark edge of the forest. 1996 D. H. George Lonely Other iii. 142 I have watched a spectacular sundown over the rooftop of the Mini-Mart across the street. 2. U.S. A kind of sun hat. Now rare (historical in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > with a brim > broad-brimmed umbrel1688 umbrellaa1803 wind-cuttera1834 broad-brim1855 broad-brimmer1860 sundown1870 1870 D. G. Brinton & G. H. Napheys Laws Health Relation Human Form 226 Now-a-days, we are content to parry its attacks with parasols, veils, and ‘sundowns’. 1873 Kansas Mag. Sept. 207/2 A flaring sun-down dangled by its strings. 1888 Cent. 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.]. 1948 E. N. Dick Dixie Frontier 297 In the summer linen or straw sundowns (sunbonnets) were the normal headgear. Phrases U.S. In prepositional phrases referring to the American Midwest or Far West, as beyond sundown, towards the sundown. Now historical. ΚΠ 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie I. ii. 43 Have you been far towards the sun-down, friend? 1846 Hancock Eagle (Nauvoo, Illinois) 10 Apr. i. 5 Captain Sutter..recommends those who intend seeking a new home beyond ‘sun-down’, to get there as soon as possible, in order that they may be able to secure lands gratis. 2012 B. Cogburn Panhandle 391 He preferred to exist in the bygone, way out beyond sundown, in that faded land where the broncy ones still roamed. Compounds C1. attributive. U.S. colloquial. Designating the American Midwest or Far West, or a point in this region, as sundown land, sundown rim, etc. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1846 Oregon Spectator 30 Apr. 2/2 We shall soon have to give in our sundown position to some enterprising typo. 1895 Amer. Bee Jrnl. 27 June 412/2 If he persists in going to the ‘Sundown Land’,..no doubt a royal welcome awaits him ‘beyond the Rockies’. 1908 G. B. Russell Four Score & More ii. 19 He was not concerned to learn of the success or results of the pony post to the sundown country. 1948 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 15 May 32/3 Pacific Books, a publishing house along the country's sundown rim, has brought out this entertaining book. 1990 G. A. Carrington Comanche War vii. 56 He says somewhere to the west or south of here. The sundown land. 2007 K. Lincoln White Boyz Blues i. 19 As I see it, the frontier ‘out west’ shadows the sundown edge of civilization. C2. U.S. colloquial. Used attributively to designate a person who works outside normal hours in addition to his or her regular employment, as sundown doctor, sundown lawyer, etc. Cf. sundowner n. 4. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [adjective] > having more than one job sundown1891 1891 Davenport (Iowa) Morning Tribune 7 Jan. I was curious when I heard a sundown doctor mentioned during a visit. 1897 Boston Transcript 5 Aug. 5/1 There are sundown doctors, sundown lawyers and sundown ministers. 1904 L. 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. 1949 Sun (Baltimore) 29 June 8/3 Attorneys practising in the county without maintaining offices there have come to be known as ‘sundown’ lawyers. 1956 Greenville (Texas) Banner 17 Apr. 6/3 Why should the people of this country be taxed to subsidize..sundown farmers, doctor and lawyer farmers, subsistence farmers, and ‘family’ farmers? C3. sundown town n. U.S. (in the period of racial segregation, in certain parts of the United States) a town in which black people face intimidation, harassment, attack, or forcible expulsion if they remain overnight or go outside after sunset; cf. don't let the sun go down (also set) on you at sun n.¹ Phrases 2a(a)(iii).Quot. 1907 shows isolated earlier use in sense ‘a town in which all businesses or other establishments are closed by sunset’, with reference to the town's new-found respectability after outlawing gambling. ΚΠ 1907 Salt Lake Tribune 9 July 13/4 In less than a week after the new fellows took hold Pueblo was a sun-down town. Not a gambling house was left open.] 1936 J. E. Seville Like Spreading Tree i. 11 The ‘sundown’ towns of white faces where a Negro may not be found after dark with safety. 1995 J. M. Loewen Lies my Teacher told Me (1996) v. 165 Some small communities in the Midwest and West became ‘sundown’ towns, informally threatening African Americans with death if they remained overnight. 2011 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Oct. 79/6 Almost no other novel treats the creation of sundown towns. Gone by Sundown thus amounts to a one-volume antidote to American amnesia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1620
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