PREFACE 1
A SEASON OF SEASONS 3
season ? dead season ? equinox ? fashion season ? for all
seasons ? Four Seasons ? in season, out of season ? open
season, close season ? seasonality ? seasoning ? season
ticket ? silly season ? solstice ? travel seasons ? seasonal
sayings
SPRING 37
spring ? April Fool ? April showers ? Easter ? Easter
egg ? frondescence ? gowk storm ? hot cross buns ? Lady
Day ? lamb storm ? Lent ? little winter ? May ? paschal ?
primavera ? seedtime ? shrovetide ? simnel cake ? spring
chicken ? spring clean(ing) ? spring fever ? spring in
politics ? spring moons ? spring roll ? vernal ? zephyr ?
spring sayings
SUMMER 87
summer ? aestive ? Barnabas Day ? dog days ? heatwave ?
high summer ? Lammas ? long hot summer ? midsummer ?
St Swithun’s Day ? strawberries and cream ? summer games ? summer house ? summer pudding ? summer
time ? summer sayings
AUTUMN/FALL 119
autumn/fall ? back end ? churn supper ? guy ? Halloween ?
harvest ? hay ? Indian summer ? Michaelmas ? reap ?
Thanksgiving ? autumn sayings
WINTER 145
winter ? Advent ? apple cider ? apricity ? boreal ? Boxing
Day ? brumal ? Candlemas ? Christingle ? Christmas ?
Christmas creep ? eggnog ? figgy pudding ? Groundhog
Day ? first footing ? Handsel Monday ? hibernal ? hiemal ?
Hogmanay ? Jack Frost ? Kris Kringle ? Lucy light ?
Martinmas ? mince pies ? mistletoe ? nival ? Plough
Sunday, Plough Monday ? plum duff ? Santa Claus ?
snow ? sugar plum ? wassail ? winter hedge ? winter of
discontent ? winter woollies ? Yule ? winter sayings
SEASON CONTRASTS 207
blends ? contrasts ? age ? living ? love ? transitions