Meanings
nounsummer resort (plural summer resorts)
plural summer resorts
- A resort visited for holidays/vacations during the summer.
Hangchow is built around large lakes and gardens. In the days when the emperors used it as a summer resort, it was known as the most beautiful city in China. I know that Mao enjoyed taking vacations there and staying in an exquisite old palace that had been turned into a government guesthouse.
1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1969–1972”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 573
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