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Indian summer

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Indian summer
n.
1. A period of mild weather occurring in late autumn.
2. A pleasant, tranquil, or flourishing period occurring near the end of something: the Indian summer of the administration.

Indian summer
n
1. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a period of unusually settled warm weather after the end of summer proper
2. a period of ease and tranquillity or of renewed productivity towards the end of a person's life or of an epoch See also Saint Martin's summer
[originally US: probably so named because it was first noted in regions occupied by American Indians]
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Noun1.Indian summer - a period of unusually warm weather in the autumn
period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
autumn, fall - the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973"
Translations
Indian summer n (fig) → estate f di San Martino


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The book is associated especially in my mind with one golden day of Indian summer, when I carried it into the woods with me, and abandoned myself to a welter of emotion over its page.
It is like a monster ever unsubdued, this stubborn land that drowses in this Indian summer weather and that survives them all, the men who scratched its surface and passed.
It was a glorious Indian summer day, which suggested nothing of Thanksgiving, near at hand as it was.
 
 
 
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