summer seasonn.

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. 1 In A somer sesun whon softe was þe sonne.

?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 297 Late take a gres in somer-sesoun.

c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 285 Ye may see many tymes in the somer season how in the clowdes there be factions like bestes dyuersly, summe in oon fourme and summe in an-othere.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 703/1 In the sommer season I love to shyfte me often.

1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. i vij Giff he [sc. the sun] be in ony of ye sowth signes in ye simmer sessone.

1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. viii. 167 Foules..in the Summer season, mowting, and mewing their Feathers.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. xii. 453/1 Places to which the Gentry resort, and abide there dureing the Summer season.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 477. ¶1 In the Summer Season the whole Country blooms.

1775 R. Barker Let. 9 Mar. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 252 The ice-maker..made a sufficient quantity in the winter for the supply of the table during the summer season.

1812 S. Edwards New Bot. Garden I. 88 The cuttings should be made in the summer season.

1881 Chicago Times 14 May These ‘coolies’ are dry during the summer season, but are flooded in the spring of the year.

1903 W. Craig My Adventures 233 The intense heat and the clouds of dust raised by northerly ‘bursters’ during the summer season were hard to bear.

1989 S. H. Schneider Global Warming (1990) vi. 138 California, with its large population, major agricultural economy, and hot, dry summer season has very great water-consumption needs.

2015 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 22 Sept. e3 With a too-short summer season and inconsistent sunshine, convertibles are and will always be an extravagance here in Canada.

1760 (title) A view of the Edinburgh theatre during the summer season, 1759.

1795 T. Wilkinson Wandering Patentee I. 137 She engaged for the summer season in some country company in Ireland.

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 12 The education, which they had been laying in, at wholesale, during the summer season.

1891 Voice (N.Y.) 12 Nov. The dozen or fifteen barefooted urchins who in the later summer season ganged in from the river side and prairie.

1952 W. Granville Dict. Theatr. 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.

1973 Melody 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.

2014 DJ Mag Apr. 49/1 Each summer season this open-air behemoth in a stunning setting hosts a series of one-off DJ-headlined events.