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mid-season
†1. The time in the middle of the day; noon.
1610Shakes. Temp. i. ii. 239 Pro. What is the time o' th' day? Ar. Past the mid season.
2. The middle of the season.
1902E. Banks Newspaper Girl 166, I was wearing my new Paris hat, which, as it was mid-season, I had bought for eighteen shillings and sixpence. 1969Burpee Catal. 123/2 Delicious [straw]berries in midseason.
attrib.1882Garden 14 Jan. 30/3 A mid-season house containing mixed kinds may now be started in the usual way. 1889Daily News 22 Oct. 6/1 A few really tasteful and appropriate mid-season dresses. 1921Wodehouse Indiscretions of Archie xix. 210, I was just putting old Bill through it..with a view to getting him into mid-season form. 1946― Joy in Morning v. 35 Though crushed to earth..he rises again—not absolutely in midseason form, perhaps, but perkier than you would expect. 1969Burpee Catal. 81/2 Sweet Corn... A midseason corn. |