St. Luke's summer

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St. Luke's summer

noun little summer of St. Luke · Saint Luke's summer · St. Luke's little summer

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

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@misc{st_luke_s_summer_2026,
  title = {St. Luke's summer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/st.%20luke's%20summer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}