estival

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The adjective estival is used to refer to which season of the year?

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2024

No one writes about brutish people like Gallant; she transforms the meanest human specimens into subjects of high fascination and sympathy, which makes her excellent reading for overheated estival subway commutes.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 17, 2015

Always barring some sudden eruption, the U.S. is once again in an estival moment of lassitude and languishing spirits.

From Time Magazine Archive

As he stood beside the bridal pair he seemed almost too festive, too estival, too ebullient for this poor earth of ours.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake

A man of the right temperament gains greatly by a temporary estival transplantation; and if Johnny always contrived to seem dominant and prosperous at home, he now seemed lordly and triumphant abroad.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake