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setting

/ˈsɛtɪŋ/ adjectif C2

En français : couchant

  1. That disappears below the horizon. · the setting sun
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It was twilight of a lovely spring evening, and even Little Ryder Street, one of the smaller offshoots from the Edgware Road, within a stone-cast of old Tyburn Tree of evil memory, looked golden and wonderful in the slanting rays of the setting sun.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 79 · B2
Our next view of him shall be as he descends the steps of his lodging-house immaculately and correctly clothed; calm, assured, handsome—in appearance the typical New York young clubman setting out, slightly bored, to inaugurate the pleasures of the evening.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 26 · C1
Only in this way can I make the reader appreciate the people concerned and the strange setting in which their fate was cast.
The Valley of Fear, p. 21 · C1
Once in a while she would pass a house, and the people came out to look at her and bow low as she went by; for everyone knew she had been the means of destroying the Wicked Witch and setting them free from bondage.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 14 · B2

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