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Spring-cleaning   /sprɪŋ-klˈinɪŋ/   Listen
Spring-cleaning

noun
1.
The activity of cleaning a house thoroughly at the end of winter.





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"Spring-cleaning" Quotes from Famous Books



... flew a crow, and the secret was out. I had long suspected that a pair of crows nested each year about the pines, but now I realized that it was Silverspot and his wife. The old nest was theirs, and they were too wise to give it an air of spring-cleaning and housekeeping each year. Here they had nested for long, though guns in the hands of men and boys hungry to shoot crows were carried under their home every day. I never surprised the old fellow again, though I several times saw ...
— Wild Animals I Have Known • Ernest Thompson Seton
... "I have told you why, for I have been at Uncle Peter's in summer, and aunt does her spring-cleaning in May, and then she shuts all the blinds and drops all the curtains, and the house stays clean till October. That's the whole of it. If she had all her windows open, there would be paint and windows to be cleaned every ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various


Words linked to "Spring-cleaning" :   cleanup, cleansing, cleaning, spring-clean


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