harvest-time

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The bird has become so associated with harvest-time celebratory dinners that we've been calling Thanksgiving "Turkey Day" since at least 1870.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2021

And in autumn, its harvest-time tang pairs well with watching—or hanging out in the general vicinity of—the Head of the Charles.

From Slate • Sep. 16, 2013

Pissarro painted many orchards, sometimes in radiant spring blossom, and sometimes at harvest-time, with fruit-pickers at work.

From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2013

They seldom come nearer to it than planting-time, harvest-time, cherry-time, spring-time, or fall-time.

From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass

Anybody who has been in the country about harvest-time has heard the shrill noise made by this cicada and probably has come upon his cast-off shell sticking to a fence-rail or a tree-trunk.

From St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various