Harlem sunset

English Etymology Used in Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely (1940), suggesting the red colour of a sunset. Noun en US noir rare A fatal wound caused by a knife fight. en 1940 w:Raymond Chandler w:Farewell, My Lovely A. A. Knopf 14 One time there was five smokes carved Harlem sunsets on each other down on East Eighty-four. en 1976 w:Frank Ormsby War Memorial Soundings 3 w:Seamus Heaney https://books.google.com/books?id=IZ8VAAAAMAAJ&q=%22This+wasn%27t+some+punk+carving+Harlem+sunsets+on+a+drugstore+attendant.+This+was+a+professional+job.%22&dq=%22This+wasn%27t+some+punk+carving+Harlem+sunsets+on+a+drugstore+attendant.+This+was+a+professional+job.%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj80uCfn5joAhWil3IEHaHxAXEQ6AEwAHoECAAQAg 15 This wasn't some punk carving Harlem sunsets on a drugstore attendant. This was a professional job. en February 1 2004 Desdemona {ASSM} Rough Cut: Chap 1 by Desdmona (crime drama) alt.sex.stories.moderated http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sex.stories.moderated/msg/fe6b13ac90f20429 The blade had been inches from showing Moe a Harlem sunset. A longer knife, or an extra twist, and Moe would've bled to death before the meat wagon arrived. 2006, Richard E. Sall, Straightjacket, p. 38, We had some mean turf wars with rival Latino and Italian gangs, and I've still got the scars to prove it: one under my left eye from some Romano's chain, and one just to the right of my right shoulder blade from some bitch who tried to give me a Harlem sunset –yup, that can happen in Detroit, too. en terms derived from toponyms