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weather-breeder
A day of exceptionally sunny and calm weather, popularly supposed to be a presage of a coming storm. Also fig.
1655H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 160 The King had intentions of being present at the General Assembly; but this lucid interval proved but a weather-breeder. 1659J. Arrowsmith Chain Princ. 391 Look at a very fair day, as that which may prove a weather-breeder, and usher in storms. 1780T. Smith Jrnl. (1849) 281 A most delightful day; a weather breeder. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., s.v., A cloudless sky, after a succession of rainy weather, denotes rain, and is said to be a weather-breeder. 1879J. Burroughs Locusts 98 Weather-breeders..are usually the finest days in the calendar, all sun and sky. 1903Daily Chron. 10 Feb. 5/2 Isolated fine days in February are known in Surrey as ‘weather-breeders’.
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1899R. M. Gilchrist Nicholas 23 The last se'nnight of March had been dull and weather-breeding. |