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St. Luke's summer
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English
Alternative forms
en little summer of St. Luke Saint Luke's summer St. Luke's little summer
Noun
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A short period of warm weather around St Luke's Day (18 October); an Indian summer (also figuratively).
en 1904 Saki ‘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.
en 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.
Synonyms
see en Indian summer
en Temperature Autumn
en eponyms