fall of the leaf noun1 •(no longer used) The time of the year when deciduous trees shed their leaves in temperate climates; (more generally) autumn.[…] I would wyshe you to suffer none of the guelders to take your Coltes in hande onles it be in the sprynge, as in May, or in the beginning of Iune, or els about the fall of the leafe […] — 1566
