Citations:strawberry winter

English citations of strawberry winter

1. (especially Southern US, Midwestern US) A period of cold weather in spring or early summer; a blackberry winter.
   • 1998, Annie Jones, The Prayer Tree, Alabaster (→ISBN):

     They did not have blackberry winters in Maine, or strawberry winters, or dogwood winters — all terms used to refer to three cool snaps that folks expected here each spring. That blackberry winter still existed, that she had come home in time to experience it, bolstered Naomi's spirits. And something in her mother's touch — something subtle that conveyed, "I'm still your mother, I still have something to contribute to you," did much to set Naomi's world right again.