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Decemberly
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English
Etymology
From en December ly.
Adjective
en rare Characteristic of the month of December.
en 2004 Günter Grass; Helmut Frielinghaus The Günter Grass reader 55 Because the air was so Decemberly, cousin and cousin decided to go out to Oliva Forest and, if it wasn't too much for Tulla, to walk as far as the Schwedenschanze.
en 1904 William Waldorf AStor A Dragon in the Garden of Eden The Pall Mall magazine 442 Lady Dimchurch brought only her own keen appetite, and I remember that the ayre being Decemberly and the summer goosemist laying on the sidelands, she hadde a little snoutband drawn about her face to huddle her from the cold.
en 1792 Laurence Sterne The Life And Opinions Of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman 268 Now, from one little indulgence gained after another, in the many bleak and Decemberly nights of a seven years' widowhood, things had insensibly come to this pass...
Synonyms
en Decemberish
en Decembery