Chiefly poet. or rhet. [See FALL v. 7 e.] Sunset.
1600. Tourneur, Transf. Metam., lxxiii. Heauen … but eu’n now lamented The sun-fall of thy selfe.
1605. 1st Pt. Jeronimo, 895. Many a bleeding hart, which, eare Sunne fall, Shall pay deere trybute.
1870. R. S. Hawker, Cornish Ball., Aurora, i. Sunfall, and yet no night!
1890. O. Crawfurd, Round the Calendar in Portugal, 33. The fields now, from early dawn to sunfall, are everywhere full of the farmer’s labourers and his family.
