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单词 ante-spring
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ante-spring
ante-spring adj. and n.
Brit. /ˈantᵻsprɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˈæn(t)əˌsprɪŋ/
now rare (a) adj. occurring or existing before spring; (b) n. a period before spring, esp. one with springlike weather.
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1864 Let. 17 Feb. in T. F. Rodenbough From Everglade to Cañon (1875) App. 534 No signs of the usual spring or ante-spring move, although there are frequent ‘rumors of war’, and occasional ‘saddling-up in hot haste’.
1881 G. Milner Country Pleasures (ed. 2) 2 Our antespring—our premonitory awakening.
1926 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 17 Jan. 2/1 Backyards resound to the beating of dusty rugs and the clamor of ante-spring cleaning.
1948 Washington Post 5 Feb. 10/7 The Jones women are counted on to bloom out in at least three hats a season—ante-spring, spring and neo-spring.
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