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St. Luke's summer en · NOUN
Meanings
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A short period of warm weather around St Luke's Day (18 October); an Indian summer (also figuratively).
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.
1934, Sir William Beech Thomas, The Yeoman's England: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.
1904, ‘Saki’, “Reginald's Rubaiyat”, in Reginald:
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Synonyms
Indian summer