St. Luke's summer
English
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Noun
- A short period of warm weather around St Luke's Day (18 October); an Indian summer (also figuratively).
- 1904, ‘Saki’, "Reginald's Rubaiyat", Reginald:
- to me there was something infinitely pathetic and appealing in the idea of the egg having a sort of St. Luke's summer of commercial usefulness.
- 1934, Sir William Beech Thomas, The Yeoman's England:
- Almost every virtue of every season is contracted into the little span of St. Luke's summer, the very vintage of the year's juices.
- 1904, ‘Saki’, "Reginald's Rubaiyat", Reginald:
Synonyms
- see Indian summer
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