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summer season
1. The season of summer. Now rare.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. Prol. 1 In A somer sesun whon softe was þe sonne. a1400Stockholm Med. MS. i. 107 in Anglia XVIII. 297 Late take a gres in somer-sesoun. 1530Palsgr. 703/1 In the sommer season I love to shyfte me often. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. i vij, Giff he [sc. the sun] be in ony of ye sowth signes in ye simmer sessone. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xii. 453/1 Places to which the Gentry resort, and abide there dureing the Summer season. 1712Addison Spect. No. 477 ⁋1 In the Summer-Season the whole Country blooms. 1811Shelley ‘She was an aged woman’ 66 When the time of summer season smiled. 1812New Bot. Gard. I. 88 The cuttings should be made in the summer season.
2. A period in summer for which people are employed in connection with seasonal or holiday entertainment, trade, etc.
1952W. Granville Dict. Theatrical Terms 159 Seasonal shop, an engagement for the summer season in, say, a concert party or in a touring company that visits theatres which open only in the summer months. 1973Melody Maker 4 Aug. 50/6 The Teign Valley Stompers from Teignmouth, Devon, who are at present enjoying a summer season on Pontin's Holiday Camps' Devon circuit, have engaged a new trombonist. |