Meaning of fall of the leaf | Babel Free
Definitions
The time of the year when deciduous trees shed their leaves in temperate climates; (more generally) autumn.
Examples
“[…] I would wyshe you to suffer⟳ none of the guelders to take⟳ your Coltes in hande onles it be in the sprynge, as in May, or in the beginning of Iune, or els about the fall⟳ of the leafe […]”
“Hip[polito]. […] I was not so much a foole to marry⟳, till my time were come⟳, Cour[tier]. What time? Hip[polito]. Why the fall⟳ of the leafe, when my Summer is over […]”
“1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 10, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, p. 107, The rage of suicide comes on regularly, like⟳ the moulting-time of birds, at a particular season of the year, which commences at the fall⟳ of the leaf.”
““My uncle’s great journey was in the fall⟳ of the leaf, at which time he collected debts and took orders in the north: […]””
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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