Decembrish

Definitions

Adjective. [B2]

Examples

“As I am in a compleat Decembrish humour, gloomy, sullen, stupid, as even the deity of Dullness herself could wish⟳, I will not drawl out a heavy letter with a number⟳ of heavier apologies for my late silence.”

“Written during the years of war and revolution, Tristia is full of portents of the end⟳, of allusions to a funereal, twilit, and decembrish world.”

“Let’s now, by way of innocent example, take⟳ a Decembrish lyric of mine, which alludes to the multiple, haunting, sliding, imprecise slather of meanings for Christmas which persist for us up here, even where Christmas begins to mark⟳ the champagnesque season of surf, hot sand, sunburn⟳ and cold ham.”

“Now the evening into the night horror went from the windows, sullen, Decembrish.”

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