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sunsetn. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sun n.1, set n.1 Etymology: < sun n.1 + set n.1 In Old English (Northumbrian) perhaps after early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic sólarsetr , also sólarseta ); see discussion at set n.1 Compare sunsetting n.In some early contexts, instances of this word are difficult to distinguish from uses of sun n.1 followed by the subjunctive or past tense of set v.1; compare e.g.:1370 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 182 Yai sall be..atte yaire werke..untill itte be namare space yan tyme of a mileway byfore ye sone sette.The β. forms show remodelling of the first element after the genitive of sun n.1 1. the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > [noun] > setting the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > sunset OE (Northumbrian) xxiv. 27 Sicut enim fulgor exit ab oriente et paret usque in occidentem : suæ forðon leht gaes from eastdael & ædeawas wið sunset uel wesdæl. OE (Northumbrian) xii. 54 Cum uideritis nubem orientem ab occasu : miððy gie geseað þæt wolcen uppstigende..fram sunnsett [OE Rushw. Gospels from sunsete]. 1584 A. Barlowe in R. Hakluyt (1589) iii. 372 Towards the Sunne set, foure daies iourney, is situate a Towne called Sequotan. a1626 J. Fletcher & W. Rowley Maid in Mill iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher (1647) sig. Bbbb4v/1 It has lasted Too many Sun-sets. a1668 W. Waller (1680) 157 This Sunset..is to me an exprobration. 1790 A. Alison i. i. 26 The beauty of sunset, in a fine autumnal evening, seems almost incapable of addition from any circumstance. 1821 H. R. Schoolcraft 36 We had been told by the hunter to travel toward sun-set, that is, nearly due-west. 1873 B. Harte 98 A flash of water, tremulous and tinted with sunset. 1929 22 June 11/5 I stopped for a while to watch the sunset fade in a wild glory of color. 1937 J. D. Carr in 24 Mar. 12/1 The village of Grayling Dene lay a mile away towards the sunset. 1965 H. MacInnes (1967) xvii. 253 Outside the breakwater, the sunset was starting. 2000 Spring 140/1 (advt.) Barbeques are available allowing you to dine out on our beach patio as you catch those suncoast spectacular sunsets. the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > be happy [verb (intransitive)] > end happily 1909 11 Aug. 3/2 The range rider who..flooded the world with gold, has gone on the last prospect tour, into the sunset. 1923 11 Nov. 16/4 The beardless boy..rode off into the sunset to learn to fly. 1967 H. Harrison (1968) iii. 28 He takes the girl with him and together they sail into the sunset to a new life. 1976 W. Goldman iii. xii. 207 I didn't even bother getting mad at your crack about me going off into the sunset. 1989 T. Parker xxii. 269 We got married, and we set off together into the sunset for a new life. 2016 (Nexis) 5 July 15 And so Nigel Farage rides off into the sunset, the latest Brexit politician to depart the scene after causing maximum chaos. 2. the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [noun] > sunrise or sunset a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) vii. l. 4913 Riht evene upon the Sonne set. c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) l. 3050 Als sone as þe son vp soȝt þe slaȝtere begynnes, And so to þe son-sett [a1500 Trin. Dublin And to sett was þe same] slakid þai neuire. 1526 W. Bonde iii. sig. UUUviii At the houre of complyn, whiche is about the sonne set. 1581 J. Maplet f. 61v Some recken it to bee a day from sunne rising to sunne rising,..some from Sun set to Sunset. 1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon 29 As soone as it was day, all set forward..imagining that by sun-set they should reach to Villages of the Babylonian Territorie. 1673 R. Head 8 I got in four hours before Sunset. 1711 J. Addison No. 110. ¶1 The Butler desired me with a very grave Face not to venture my self in it after Sun-set. 1777 J. Cook II. iii. iii. 27 Then we tacked and stretched in for the island till near sun-set. 1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 15 Jan. in (1980) i. 40 After sunset, the horizon burned and glowed with rich crimson and orange lustre. 1874 F. C. Burnand xi. 90 The Jews begin their Sabbath on Friday at sunset. 1927 C. J. Root Jan. 1/2 The ice practically disappeared from trees and wires by sunset of the 24th. 1972 J. Mandelkau iv. 52 He..worked on the earth through every straining day from sunrise to sunset. 2016 (Nexis) 27 June 55 Look low in the southwest after sunset, and identify the planet by its distinctive red colour. the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > the latter part 1599 W. Shakespeare iii. v. 127 When the Sun sets, the earth doth drisle deaw, But for the Sunset of my brothers sonne, It rains downright. View more context for this quotation 1613 W. Basse (title) Great Brittaines Sunnes-set, bewailed with a shower of teares. 1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart 2 Old age..may be called the sunne set of our dayes. 1690 W. Temple Ess. Poetry 45 in So many Ages after the Sun-set of the Roman Learning and Empire together. 1743 A. Hill vi. 52 In the Sun-set of a conqu'ring State, Shou'd Gaul 's vain Sons dispute their Conqu'ror's Weight? ?1780 R. Lewis I. 155 I would take care he should want for nothing to..render the sunset of his life serene and calm. 1835 Aug. 476 The gloomy doubts..were rising up on every side to mask the sunset of their declining hopes. 1898 J. R. Illingworth i. 1 The gloom that darkens, or the hope that glorifies the sunset of our days. 1959 ‘J. Wyndham’ & L. Parkes ii. 72 It would be public confirmation of the view..that the British had had their day, and were dwindling into their sunset. 2011 32 148 A poet who sees himself not only at the sunset of his career but..perhaps at the sunset of poetry itself. Compounds C1. 1593 M. Drayton i. sig. B2v His sun-set eyes gan here and there to roule, Like one surprisde with sodaine lunacie. 1821 J. Clare II. 7 True to his sunset-clock he kept, His Goody and his cot to find. 1886 R. L. Stevenson viii. 65 I wondered..at the lateness of the sunset light. 1898 T. Watts-Dunton xiii. iv Masses of sunset mist. 1932 13 Feb. 2/6 Hand in hand they drift into the sunset hours of life. 1941 Apr. 114/2 By sunset-time the berg had diminished to a mass no larger than a common floe. 1977 5 June 3/2 A siege of herons flying home against a sunset sky. 1990 D. Ackerman i. 35 The most popular hybrid tea [rose] in the world is ‘Peace’, a stunning multicolored pastel with sunset hues. 2015 S. Ledingham ii. 44 Soft music and stunning views, slow dancing and a sunset cruise. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Hesperides in (new ed.) 106 The luscious fruitage..Sunset-ripened. 1856 19 Jan. There was no eye for the sunset-tinted snow. 1873 Jan. 73/2 His clever sunset-bathed ‘Repose in Egypt’ (a much later picture). 1914 4 July 1/5 Paradise itself was reflected for her in the sunset flushed sky. 1952 P. M. Dunne xvi. 208 They did not descry any sunset-purpled channel leading to the South Sea. 2001 2 July 3/1 A glossy circular shows pinkish, sunset-drenched saguaros at the mouth of Pima Canyon. 1848 tr. in 22 July 238/2 Your carmine, dawn-of-morning, sunset-red cheeks that resemble a pot of paint. a1861 E. B. Browning (1913) 11 A spark of light from highest dawn, Which glows and opens..till sunset reds are likest to them. 1888 27 Feb. 3/3 The lady's train..was lined with sunset-pink satin. 1916 7 Feb. 4/1 (advt.) There are bird's-eye tweeds and Harris tweeds, in Tipperary greens, sunset purples and ocean blues. 1949 13 Nov. 15 b/2 Chairman Mason turned a sunset crimson. 1997 J. Wilson (1998) 112/3 This high-visibility sunset-orange floating line..sits especially high in the water for easy pick-up. 2003 Feb. 198/2 The surrounding colour of the stone varying from mussel blue to pink, to sunset red and grassy emerald. 1819 Oct. 187 I lived near the sun-set side of the country. 1839 25 May 380/1 All this sunset clime became Familiar with Victoria's name! 1891 1 July 3/3 The beautiful freehold residence..has the famous western or ‘sunset’ aspect. 1919 Sept. 6/3 The first Englishman to stand by the sunset sea and to circumnavigate the globe. 1957 8 Aug. 7/2 For us the West is another and a more exciting Ireland... We find ourselves in a sunset land at the tattered end of Europe. 2010 (Nexis) 10 June We who live on the sunset side of this country tend to forget there is a great big world out there that has absolutely no idea what the West really is. society > occupation and work > industry > [noun] > types of industry generally 1906 6 834 If opportunities are not snatched, it [sc. the Jamaica sugar industry] may still be a ‘sunset’ industry. 1983 30 Sept. 40/5 Policy must not be exclusively directed to ‘sunrise’ or ‘sunset’ sectors. 1995 (Nexis) 9 Oct. Economists could..look at emerging trends and alert businessmen to opportunities.., while at the same time giving them early warning of sunset areas. 2011 51 662 During the 1970s, trading in Hong Kong was regarded as a sunset industry because of the city's marginalizing role as a gateway bridging China and the West. society > law > types of laws > [adjective] > terminating at fixed period 1974 14 July 8/2 Legislatures..have responded to the public's dissatisfaction with self-perpetuating programs by proposing sunset laws. 1982 25 Feb. 7/8 It is not a wilderness protection Bill..but a wilderness sunset Bill, that would end wilderness protection. 1994 Oct. 85/3 Term limits, balanced budget amendments, sunset legislation, and the like are all worthy band aids. 2001 22 Nov. 1/1 As a concession, he agreed to a ‘sunset clause’ so that the power to detain without trial would lapse after five years. 2016 (Nexis) 28 Oct. 13 Clinton's top aides acknowledge she remains concerned with the nuclear deal's sunset provisions. 1854 H. B. Stowe II. 303 We reached the summit just as the sunset-gazing crowd were dispersing. a1885 M. D. Bateham (1895) 115 Oh, gates of glad surprise, For sunset-turning eyes. 1902 W. Watson iv. 25 Deira with her sea-face to the morn, And Cambria sunset-gazing. 2010 M. A. Winkowski & M. Foley ii. 12 A porch that could comfortably seat dozens of sunset-gazing cocktail sippers. C7. society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > [noun] > signal with gun society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > signal or ceremonial gun 1797 26 Apr. Immediately after the firing the sun-set gun, the ship's company..went aft. 1861 C. Dickens I. ii. 25 There was a conwict off last night..after sunset-gun. 1923 22 Mar. 11/5 The firing of the sunrise, sunset, and 9.30 p.m. guns at Gibraltar was discontinued.., but on June 19th the firing of the sunset gun was restored. 2008 (Nexis) 6 Jan. 12 Among the lost sounds of Fort Brooke was the sunset gun, signaling day's end. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [noun] > for the old 1897 25 Feb. 93/1 The committee of ‘The Sunset Homes for Aged Poor’ are ready to take charge of any..who may be taken from the Kensington Workhouse on June 20. 1921 (42nd Sess.) 137 A bill for an act to provide for and maintain homes for aged people, to be known as sunset homes. 2014 (Nexis) 8 Apr. 13 Gone was granny or grandpa rattling around in the old family home... They were tidily gathered up and herded into sunset homes. 1854 S. P. Woodward ii. 311 (heading) Psammobia, Lamarck. Sunset-shell. 1901 E. Step ix. 147 The Faroe Sunset-shell (P. ferröensis) is larger, more opaque, and duller, marked with close low concentric ridges. 1958 J. E. Morton x. 188 The British genera are Gari, containing the sunset shells, some of the most beautiful of bivalves, and the razor-shaped Solecurtus. 2007 M. G. King (ed. 2) ii. 89/1 Tellins or sunset shells are mainly tropical sand-dwelling clams that have elongate fragile shells with rays of colour radiating out from the hinge area. 1880 5 Aug. Pop them [sc. meringues] into the oven one brief instant, and then draw them out sunset yellow. 1905 18 Mar. 324/1 The flowers are sunset yellow or reddish gold, and are highly fragrant. 1929 138 363/1 United States Department of Agriculture. Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration... Two new colours, Ponceau SX and Sunset Yellow FCF, are now added to the list of coal-tar dyes accepted for certification by the department. 1986 (Nexis) 23 Sept. The county schools catering service has banned products containing the additives E102 Tartrazine and E110 Sunset Yellow. There have been suggestions that both these colourings..might be linked with hyperactivity. 2002 (Nexis) 16 Nov. 6 Chicken tikka masala is among the dishes using the largest amounts of artificial colourings—mainly tartrazine and Sunset Yellow. 2009 (Nexis) 1 Dec. d1 There are lots of brightly pigmented colours this season, like fire engine red, sunset yellow and grape, in both solid and prints. Derivatives the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > [adjective] > setting the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [adjective] > of sunset or nightfall 1860 Sept. 291 There's a real good dreamy sunsetty old-times feeling in recollecting it all. 1893 T. N. Page 45 Her arms so white, an' her face sort o' sunsetty. 1934 31 Jan. 4/7 A sunsetty glow of health, wealth and fame. 2011 (Nexis) 26 Aug. 41 It's richly smooth, spicy, sunsetty, not as overpowering as I find old fashioneds made with bourbon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sunsetv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: sunset n. the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [verb (intransitive)] 1656 W. Sanderson i. 260 That the Nobility neglected her too much, affecting the King of Scots, that the dawning of her day should Sun-set, when too timely they endeavoured to adore the morning-rise. 1933 V. McNabb 30 The prodigal's prosperity which sunsets in beggary. 2014 (Nexis) 1 Mar. b1 Though his House career is sunsetting, [he] has filed to run for the Florida Senate in 2018. society > law > types of laws > laws or statutes with specific application [verb (transitive)] > terminate by sunset legislation 1976 19 Nov. 13/7 We have the votes on this committee to recommend Youth Services be sunsetted. 1982 28 Sept. b10/4 His impatience is also displayed in his plans to ‘sunset’ the aeronautics board well before it is scheduled to expire. 2002 7 Nov. (Review & Oulook section) 15 Government help sunsets in 2005. 2016 (Nexis) 19 May 3 This move, along with sunsetting some trustees' tuition waivers (scholarships) over the next three years, should save roughly $225,000. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.OE v.1656 |
