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Aprilly en · ADJ

Etymology

From April + -y.

Meanings

1. (rare) Characteristic of the month of April.
   • It was a summer such as had not often been seen in Kirktown. Day after day, instead of the usual Aprilly weather variegated by thunderstorms which usually passes for summer in Scotland... 1907, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The iron lord:
   • Aprilly and rainy here, but it will improve the crop of weeds on the front lawn. 2000, Anne of the Thousand Penguins, “KIDS!!!”, in alt.acme.exploding.newsgroup (Usenet):
   • It's turned Aprilly to-day — sharp showers and sunshine. 1917, Robert Ernest Vernède, Letters to his wife:

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