Black-thorn Winter (The).

The cold weather which frequently occurs when the black-thorn is in blossom. (See Borrowed Days.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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