The etymology of 'Indian summer' - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An Indian summer day in Fageda d'en Jordà, a beech forest located in Garrotxa county, Catalonia. An Indian summer is a period of unseasonably warm, dry weather that sometimes occurs in autumn in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Several sources describe a true Indian summer as not occurring until after the first frost, or more specifically the first "killing frost".[1][2][3] Etymology[

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語源に関して日本語で検索すると、ネイティブアメリカンによる襲撃と絡めた珍説が散見されるけれど、珍説に過ぎないよう

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The earliest known use was by French-American writer John Hector St. John de Crevecoeur in rural New York in 1778: "Then a severe frost succeeds which prepares it to receive the voluminous coat of snow which is soon to follow; though it is often preceded by a short interval of s