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Decemberly en · ADJ

Etymology

From December + -ly.

Meanings

1. (rare) Characteristic of the month of December.
   • 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. 2004, Günter Grass, Helmut Frielinghaus, The Günter Grass reader, page 55:
   • 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... 1792, Laurence Sterne, The Life And Opinions Of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman, page 268:
   • 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. 1904, William Waldorf AStor, “A Dragon in the Garden of Eden”, in The Pall Mall magazine, page 442:

Forms

Synonyms

Decemberish · Decembery