Indian summer

Indian summer
noun Date: 1778 1. a period of warm or mild weather in late autumn or early winter 2. a happy or flourishing period occurring toward the end of something <
the crowning performance of the Indian summer of her career — Octavio Roca
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New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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