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Water and ice go to extremes in estival New York.

It also contains restaurants, interior and beach bars and an estival cinema theater.

You go to a concert in the park - almost any park - and the generally dismal amplification of outdoor music spoils the estival festival.

Male hominoids are visually activated-chimpanzees, by rosy, estrous colors; Stratoin men, by estival lights in the sky.

The Latinate names estival solstice (summer) and hibernal solstice (winter) are sometimes used to the same effect, as are midsummer and midwinter.

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., IV Thirteen 1931/1932 Edith gazed around the sodden expanse, looking for Leonard, the vapor of her breath floating before her like an estival ghost in the crisp winter air.