Day 597: curfew

Anyone could be shot for breaking (= not obeying) the curfew in certain countries in certain era...

Word of the day
curfew: a rule that everyone must stay at home between particular times, usually at night, especially during a war or a period of political trouble

Quote of the day
“Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded throughout Nature. It indicates a spontaneous, Promethean rebelliousness against the fiat that this recurrent season shall bring foul times, cold darkness, misery and death. Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native