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

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

Above them, from a tree glorious with sunshine, fell a golden shower of autumn leaves.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 by Various

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

We are told that Zeus assumed the form of an eagle, a serpent, and a golden shower; yet these forms do not affect our belief in the invisible god.

From Philothea A Grecian Romance by Child, Lydia Maria Francis