golden shower

American  

noun

1. a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.

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Etymology

Origin of golden shower

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

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golden shower

In consequence of this I became fully awake, and went forth in the spirit, and asked an angel who then happened to meet me, whether he saw a golden shower descending from the sun?

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

The blaze melted the plates of the roof in a golden shower above me.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

It seemed as if all the world must know of that—must ring with it, in fact; yet it was this very hour which Benevolence had now chosen for the precipitation of her golden shower.

From With the Procession by Fuller, Henry Blake

At every fresh opposition he simply opened his purse and a golden shower fell on them.

From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Bidwell, Austin

His schemes seemed to rain upon Paris a golden shower.

From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by Lord, John