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单词 dead season
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dead season
10. The period of the year during which a particular place is most frequented for business, fashion, or amusement; esp. the time (now May to July) when the fashionable world is assembled in London. dead season, the period when ‘society’ has departed from a place of resort.
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society > leisure > social event > [noun] > social season
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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > time of year > during which a particular place is frequented
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1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 50. ⁋7 Until the Company was gone, and Season over.
?c1710 J. Taylor Journey Edenborough (1903) 68 Most of the Gentry of the North of England and Scotland resort hither [to Scarborough] in the Season of the year, but we hapned to be something of the latest.
1760 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 20 Jan. You cannot figure a duller season: the weather bitter, no party, little money [etc.].
1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide x. i. 65 What Numbers one sees, who for that very Reason Come to make such a Figure at Bath ev'ry Season!
1789 Triumphs Fortitude I. 10 Be happy in all the enjoyments this dead season can afford.
1836 F. Marryat Japhet I. xxiv. 295 The season was now over, and every body of consequence quitted the metropolis.
1870 H. Smart Race for Wife ii. 29 She gave up her season in London.
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