Definition of "last post" []

• The sounding of a bugle, signalling the evening hour to bed down, also used at military funerals and remembrance services. (noun)

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• "While everything was seeming so bright, the last post brought us a letter from Mrs. Beck, saying: "I have just let all my house to one party, and am sorry I must take back my words, and am sorry you must find other apartments; but Mrs. Womming, next door, will be pleased to accommodate you, but she cannot take you before Monday, as her rooms are engaged Bank Holiday week.""
• "Shewed him Mr. Coventry's sense of it, which he sent me last post much to my satisfaction."