closed season

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noun

a period, usually for a specific part of the year, during which angling or hunting for a given species is legally prohibited: closed season on ducks.

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But Polavieja started his campaign with the immense advantage of having the whole of the dry season before him.
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A friend and companion meeting together in season, but above them both is a wife with her husband.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
Two unsophisticated country lasses visited Niblo's in New York during the ballet season.
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He was living quite en garçon, with only one man, his house having been let for the season.
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Conditions in the new country had gone from bad to worse, and if the season should experience another drought, the worst was come.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux