Definition of "summerset" []

• Variant of somerset. (noun)

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• "That he throws himself at full length with a gesture approaching to a 'summerset' on satin sofas."
• "-- That he throws himself at full length with a gesture approaching to a 'summerset' on satin sofas."
• "“But, if my devotion, as you are pleased to call my summerset, saved you, did it not save me too, for here we are, all three of us, in first-rate health?"