primaveralとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

primaveral (comparative more primaveral, superlative most primaveral)

1. Relating to or characteristic of early spring.
   • 1839, Sporting Almanack and Oracle of Rural Life, page 8:

     The first, or Primaveral season, may be considered as beginning at Candlemas, on the first opening of the early Spring flowers.

   • 1947, Myron Broomell, “Father Galen's Florilege, or a Symposy of Diseases”, in The New Mexico Quarterly, volume 17, number 3:

     Hog-wild in the suggestive orchard, / My mouth rejoiced, my belly tortured, / Set in a primaveral scene, / I tasted juice as sour as sin.

   • 1967, Victor Turner, “Preface”, in The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure:

     challenged and (sometimes) championed by as alert a group of students as one could hope to see on a primaveral day.