| 单词 | st martin's summer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSt Martin's Summer St Martin's Summer n. (also St Martin's Little Summer) a season of fine, mild weather occurring about Martinmas; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > periods of unseasonal weather Michaelmas spring1557 All-Hallown Summer1598 St Martin's Summera1616 autumn-spring1639 go-summer1649 Indian summer1790 squaw winter1847 All Saints' Summer1861 Martin's summer1864 Martinmas summer1881 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. iii. 110 This night the Siege assuredly Ile rayse: Expect Saint Martins Summer, Halcyons dayes. 1754 in J. Doran ‘Mann’ & Manners at Court of Florence (1876) II. xv. 368 Nov. 8... We have still our St. Martin's summer to come. 1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone 292 Those last few years were her Summer of St. Martin.] 1884 St. James's Gaz. 7 Nov. 14/2 The arrival of November has only varied matters by bringing in a St. Martin's summer. 1887 R. Abercromby Weather 316 The 11th [of November] is ‘St. Martin's Little Summer’, popularly considered in the Mediterranean to be a period of warm, quiet weather. 1968 R. Hargreaves Bloodybacks viii. 204 With the Carib uprising finally squashed..the old spirit of loyalty to the mother country enjoyed a brief St. Martin's summer. 1987 F. Parrish Caught in Birdlime xii. 164 Martinmas, the weather cleared, for St. Martin's summer. < as lemmas |
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