summer-day
[Cf. WFris. simmerdei, (M)LG. sommerdach, MHG. sum(m)ertac (G. sommertag).]
= summer's day.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 9946 A tron of iuor..Þat es o gretter light and leme Þan somer dai es son bem. 1390 Gower Conf. I. 184 This was upon a Somer dai. c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 5634 In þe hete of somyr day. a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 229 Frome the sone ryssing quhill the sone zeid to in ane lang sommer day. 1608 Shakes. Per. iv. i. 18 While Sommer dayes doth last. 1711 Addison Spect. No. 128 ¶10 The Lady..hates your tedious Summer Days. a 1774 Goldsm. Surv. Exp. Philos. (1776) I. 329 He calculated that it [sc. the Mediterranean sea] would lose by evaporation, every summer day, fifty-two thousand and eighty millions of tons. 1823 Scott Quentin D. v, To spend summer-day and winter-night up in yonder battlements. 1848 Lytton K. Arthur I. 6 This soft summer-day. |
b. fig. and allusively. Also attrib.
| 1605 P. Erondelle (title) The French Garden:..Or, A Sommer dayes labour. Being an instruction for the attayning vnto the knowledge of the French Tongue. 1806 Ann. Rev. IV. 466 The summer days of Naples were over. 1833 Tennyson May Queen vi, There's many a bolder lad 'ill woo me any summer day. 1867 A. J. Wilson Vashti xxii, No mere gala barge..was his religion; no fair summer-day toy. |