| 单词 | blackthorn winter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblackthorn winter blackthorn winter n. English regional (chiefly midlands and southern) a period of very cold weather in late winter or early spring; cf. blackberry winter n. at blackberry n. Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > cold spell > in spring after-winter1593 blackthorn wintera1793 ice saint1873 Buchan1923 a1793 G. White Observ. Veg. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1802) II. 232 Blackthorn..usually blossoms while cold N.E. winds blow; so that the harsh rugged weather obtaining at this season, is called by the country people, blackthorn winter. 1898 C. M. Yonge John Keble's Parishes xvi. 214 Blackthorn winter is supposed to bring fresh cold in spring, when the bushes almost look as if covered by hoar-frost. 1946 L. B. Lyon Rough Walk Home 28 Pray blackthorn-winter's dawn may rediscover us. 1997 A. Miller Ingenious Pain iv. 172 In the unremitting cold of March—the blackthorn winter—Munro is too drunk to leave the house. < as lemmas |
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