Meanings
alternative little summer of St. Luke · alternative Saint Luke's summer · alternative St. Luke's little summer
- 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 England1 more example
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 ReginaldSynonyms: Indian summer
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA short period of warm weather around St Luke's Day (18 October); an Indian summer (also figuratively).
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St. Luke's summer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/St.%20Luke's%20summer
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