mid-seasonn.adj.adv.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 240 Pro. What is the time o' th' day? Ar. Past the mid season . View more context for this quotation

1871 E. Lazarus Admetus 192 Behold the fairest spots in all the land, To-day in this mid-season of fresh flowers.

1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 166 I was wearing my new Paris hat, which, as it was mid-season, I had bought for eighteen shillings and sixpence.

1969 Burpee Catal. 123/2 Delicious [straw]berries in midseason.

1970 J. Didion Play it as it Lays (1971) xii. 52 The show Sidney Loomis was writing had been cancelled in midseason.

1997 Chicago Sun-Times 22 June 14A Star teammate Derek Anderson blew out his knee just before midseason.

1882 Garden 14 Jan. 30/3 A mid-season house containing mixed kinds may now be started in the usual way.

1889 Daily News 22 Oct. 6/1 A few really tasteful and appropriate mid-season dresses.

1921 P. G. Wodehouse Indiscretions of Archie xix. 210 I was just putting old Bill through it..with a view to getting him into mid-season form.

1951 Sport 30 Mar. 9/2 The Griffin Park field was doctored last summer at a cost of £2,500, but..it has been less playable than ever during the period of mid-season stress.

1969 Burpee Catal. 81/2 Sweet Corn... A midseason corn.

1987 R. P. Jhabvala Three Continents ii. 277 The rainy midseason twilight did not enhance the effect.

1998 Indianapolis Star 17 Dec. e13/1 UPN has ordered a midseason replacement, Redhanded, a half-hour hidden camera show.

1992 Garden Answers Jan. 62/2 Feed onions mid season with worm compost or concentrated manure.

1998 Total Football Sept. 69/3 I signed mid-season and then in the second season I had a bust-up with Steve Harrison (the Hornets manager at the time).

1999 F1 Racing Nov. 138/1 It seemed as though Hakkinen's world championship bid was slipping into the oggins mid-season.