Citations:St. Martin's summer

Noun: "period of warm weather in November"

 * 1832, John Johnstone, The Schoolmaster, and Edinburgh Weekly Magazine, vol. 1-2, John Anderson [for John Johnstone], page 257:
 * Such of them as, during St. Martin's summer, which extends from this season often on till Christmas, choose to make the perambulation we now trace, had best take the wings of the Chevy Chace, any fine morning and be set down at Melrose Cross, in time to make the ascent with us.
 * 2008, Boris Pilniak, Tales of the Wilderness, Echo Library, page 95:
 * It was a "St. Martin's Summer." Over the scattered blood-red vine leaves on the terrace, which was deluged in mellow autumnal sunshine, the bent-up old man walked, leaning heavily on a bamboo cane, and supported by the sturdy Vasena.
 * It was a "St. Martin's Summer." Over the scattered blood-red vine leaves on the terrace, which was deluged in mellow autumnal sunshine, the bent-up old man walked, leaning heavily on a bamboo cane, and supported by the sturdy Vasena.