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• Indian Summer — in Connecticut Ahornbaum am Straßenrand, Lake Candlewood, Connecticut …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Indian Summer — Datos generales Origen Oakland, California  Estados Unidos …   Wikipedia Español

• Indian summer — Indian In di*an (?; 277), a. [From India, and this fr. Indus, the name of a river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. ?, OPers. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, Skr. sindhu river, the Indus. Cf. {Hindu}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of or pertaining to India… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Indian summer — Summer Sum mer, n. [OE. sumer, somer, AS. sumor, sumer; akin to OFries. sumur, D. zomer, OS. sumar, G. sommer, OHG. & Icel. sumar, Dan. sommer, Sw. sommar, W. haf, Zend hama, Skr. sam[=a] year. [root]292.] The season of the year in which the sun… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Indian summer — spell of warm weather after the first frost, first recorded 1778, American English, perhaps so called because it was first noted in regions inhabited by Indians, or because the Indians first described it to the Europeans. No evidence connects it… …   Etymology dictionary

• indian summer — If there is a period of warmer weather in late autumn, it is an Indian summer …   The small dictionary of idiomes