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  • noun Plural form of leaf-peeper.

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Examples

  • New England is the blue riband region of autumn travel - so much so that the US has a specific term leaf-peepers to describe visitors who arrive in "fall".

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • The Mountain Inn needed a bartender for the lucrative eight PM to two AM shift, so I settled in to flirt with summer tourists, leaf-peepers, snow bunnies, and bored locals.

    A View of Equinox William Doreski 2011

  • The Mountain Inn needed a bartender for the lucrative eight PM to two AM shift, so I settled in to flirt with summer tourists, leaf-peepers, snow bunnies, and bored locals.

    A View of Equinox William Doreski 2011

  • The Maine Tourist Bureau will probably blacklist me for telling all you leaf-peepers to stay home...

    Tuesday roadkill report jhetley 2006

  • If any of you hypothetical audience are leaf-peepers, another week or two should get us there.

    There is something deeply pathetic... jhetley 2004

  • The tourists were gone, but it was still too early for the leaf-peepers.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • The tourists were gone, but it was still too early for the leaf-peepers.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • A well-planned foliage trip will take much the same form as a trip undertaken just to get to know the region, because leaf-peepers need destinations to look forward to during and after their forays to see the trees.

    Peeping in Peace 1997

  • A well-planned foliage trip will take much the same form as a trip undertaken just to get to know the region, because leaf-peepers need destinations to look forward to during and after their forays to see the trees.

    Peeping in Peace 1997

  • Danforth said the resort expects to be able to welcome leaf-peepers and hold its annual Brewfest on Oct. 1, even if Route 4 is still just dirt.

    SFGate: Top News Stories By LISA RATHKE 2011

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