vesper

Etymology

From Old French vespre, from Latin vesper (“evening star”).

noun

1. The bell that summons worshipers to vespers; the vesper-bell
2. (poetic) The evening.
3. A vesper martini.
4. A vesper bat.
   Almost all vespers are insect catchers.

adj

1. (poetic) Evening.
   On Sumter’s rampart, that sweet eve, / I heard the vesper bugle play […] 1908, James Ryder Randall, “On the Rampart”, in Maryland, my Maryland, and other poems, Baltimore, Md., New York: John Murphy Company, page 28