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

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Example Sentences

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golden shower

Again he struck the logs, and a golden shower of sparks flew up the chimney.

From Max by Katherine Cecil Thurston

All the details of events leading through the long Summer and Autumn days of 1872 up to the hour when the golden shower began to fall on us are of intense, almost dramatic, interest.

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

For the present there could be no thought of marrying, but they would wait till their hopes were partly realized, and the golden shower should begin.

From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Sir Walter Besant

Higher still came dense shrubby growths, much of it thorny, seamed by our narrow trail, and threaded here and there by glowing fronds of golden shower orchids.

From Jungle Peace by William Beebe

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 Henry Blake Fuller

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