[Cf. WFris. simmerdei, (M)LG. sommerdach, MHG. sum(m)ertac (G. sommertag).] = SUMMER’S DAY.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 9946. A tron of iuor … Þat es o gretter light and leme Þan somer dai es son bem.

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1390.  Gower, Conf., I. 184. This was upon a Somer dai.

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c. 1450.  St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 5634. In þe hete of somyr day.

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a. 1578.  Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 229. Frome the sone ryssing quhill the sone zeid to in ane lang sommer day.

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1608.  Shaks., Per., IV. i. 18. While Sommer dayes doth last.

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1711.  Addison, Spect., No. 128, ¶ 10. The Lady … hates your tedious Summer Days.

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a. 1774.  Goldsm., Surv. Exp. Philos. (1776), I. 329. He calculated that it [sc. the Mediterranean sea] would lose by evaporation, every summer day, fifty-two thousand and eighty millions of tons.

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1823.  Scott, Quentin D., v. To spend summer-day and winter-night up in yonder battlements.

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1848.  Lytton, K. Arthur, I. 6. This soft summer-day.

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  b.  fig. and allusively. Also attrib.

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1605.  Erondell (title), The French Garden:… Or, A Sommer dayes labour. Being an instruction for the attayning vnto the knowledge of the French Tongue.

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1806.  Ann. Rev., IV. 466. The summer days of Naples were over.

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1833.  Tennyson, May Queen, vi. There’s many a bolder lad ’ill woo me any summer day.

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1867.  Augusta Wilson, Vashti, xxii. No mere gala barge … was his religion; no fair summer-day toy.

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