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Meaning of St. Luke's summer | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A short period of warm weather around St Luke's Day (18 October); an Indian summer (also figuratively).

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

St. Lunaire-Griquet St. Malo St. Margrethen St. Maries St. Mark's fly St. Martin Parish