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形容詞

Decembry (comparative more Decembry, superlative most Decembry)

1. Alternative form of Decembery
   • 1833, Thomas Albin, “December”, in The Year, a Poem, London: Baldwin and Cradock, page 339:

     At length the frost, be glad, brings drier weather—I hope I’ve plenty strung Decembry signs together.

   • 1919 December 28, Paul R. Mallon, “Lousville—Sweep Out Your Barrooms”, in The Courier-Journal, volume CXXXI, number 18,624, Louisville, Ky., page 3:

     The wintry snows and the Decembry ocean breezes out there compelled him to seek refuge from the wild Atlantic winds in the downtown district of Brooklyn.

   • 1936 December 6, “Ice Yachting Like Caviar To Sports-Whetted Palate; Zenith of Trill; Zipping Along at 60 to 125 Miles Per Hour Like Being in Another World and Watching Time From Afar Off”, in Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 96th year, number 339, New York, page 2 G:

     At the ski, toboggan or skating enthusiast he casts a Decembry glance as he fastens on his goggles and earmuffs in preparation for the frozen lake season, which begins early in the mid-West and reaches the Northeast around Christmas.

   • 2000, Aethlon, page 7:

     The clouds that huddle here are thick, more Decembry than last day of March cold which keeps the snow light.

   • 2013, Vladimir Mayakovsky, “The Cloud in Pants”, in James H. McGavran III, transl., Selected Poems (Northwestern World Classics), Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, page 160:

     And at this point, the evening, sullen, decembry [transl. декабрый (dekabryj)], slipped away from the windows into wretched night.