seedtime

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To understand it, we need to go back to what can accurately be termed the seedtime of sexism.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2022

Eliot, Perse tells of the seedtime of history.

From Time Magazine Archive

But a more sacred seedtime than all these is the procreation of children, and therefore Sophocles did well to call Aphrodite "fruitful Cytherea."

From Plutarch's Morals by Shilleto, Arthur Richard

Let me think.—It was ten years, counting by seedtime and harvest, before Andr� spent that winter with me.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

The bluegrass itself was a flat failure; mere meadows of ordinary green, above which hung in seedtime a purplish tinge, like smoke from burning leaves.

From Why Joan? by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein