a. [f. SUMMER sb.1 + -LIKE.] Like, or like that of, summer; summery. † Also = SUMMERLY a. 1.

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1530.  Palsgr., 325/1. Sommerlyke, belongyng to the sommer season, estiual.

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1610.  Holland, Camden’s Brit. (1637), 220. In summer time it is a right summer-like Country.

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1772.  T. Smith, Jrnl. (1849), 278. Several summer-like days this month [Dec.]

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1842.  Longfellow, in Life (1891), I. 413. The weather for ten days past has been delicious and summer-like.

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1912.  World, 7 May, 681/1. The King … attended the races on Thursday, when the weather was almost summer-like.

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