Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as spanning either the period between the winter solstice to the spring equinox, or the months of December, January, and February in temperate and polar regions of the Northern Hemisphere and the months of June, July, and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.
Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe …
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(figuratively, poetic) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold.
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(countable, fashion) Someone with dark skin, eyes and hair, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
1785, William Cowper, “Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools." in The Poems of William Cowper, Vol. II., The Press of C. Whittingham (1822), page [https://books.google.cz/books?id=64RKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA174&dq=Cowper+ere+sixteen+winters+old&hl=…
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The aesthetic vocabulary of how people dress now — quiet luxury, coquette, mob wife, coastal grandmother, Y2K core, and every "-core" that came after.
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