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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
summery
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Inspired, she reaches for a Williams Sonoma cookbook in search of ideas for more summery outdoor meals.
▪ It is hard to imagine it ever turning quite summery up here.
▪ Perhaps it was a favourite spot with picnickers, though the weather was hardly summery.
▪ Plain straw hat, about £10, Sandra Philips Simple, summery, swinging.
▪ Soft pinks and browns are the summery eyeshadow shades that suit every woman, regardless of colouring.
▪ The sitting room, at the front of the house, has a more summery feel.
▪ They gave the place a summery look, an ironic note considering the winter that cloaked them both.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Summery

Summery \Sum"mer*y\, a. Of or pertaining to summer; like summer; as, a summery day.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
summery

1812, from summer (n.1) + -y (2).

Wiktionary
summery

a. 1 Relating to the summer. 2 Of weather, typical of summer.

WordNet
summery

adj. belonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer; "summery weather"; "summery dresses" [ant: autumnal, wintry, vernal]

Usage examples of "summery".

First came the Gestapo man who had arrested Eva and me when we were bathing out by the mouth of the Weser, and the summery sound of lazily lapping waves suddenly imposed itself upon the proceedings in court.

A warm, summery evening breeze, full of dust and scents, blew pleasantly beneath the brilliant street lights.

The summery air and earth seemed to be exulting fantastically in luminescent figures and a thousand tiny wheeling constellations.

Blue blouse, beige slacks, red hair: she looked as summery as the day, and he smiled in spite of his headache and rested his eyes and his mind on the pretty harper.

Seated in a froth of summery dresses - the height of Revolutionary French fashion - two young women, quite unscathed, toasted each other in white sparkling wine.

It was too summery out, and summer was too much fun, and right now sunshine made the water on the big farm pond shine like it was gold.

Rarely would those eyes vary in color from the summery color in them right now.

There is more wall to its right than to its left, and this space is occupied by a hat rack and umbrella stand in which tennis rackets, white parasols, caps, Panama hats, and other summery articles are bestowed.

I stopped halfway up the first flight and sniffed: something summery and old-fashioned.

Pop listened to the sound of the first gentle summery feathers of rain on earth and leaves as it came through the open kitchen door.

The strange, unnatural blaze created its own local domain of light and summery warmth.

A great difference from the summery lands in which he had spent the last few years.

THE BRIGHT, dry summery morning progressed, they , saw them everywhere.

The latticed partitions reminded her of lace, and birdcages, and summery gazebos covered with vines.

Her summery frock had changed to a gypsyish outfit of brightly coloured blouse and skirt, and her blonde hair now had thick curls in it.