golden shower
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of golden shower
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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The stranger took them from the ground, and, with a smile, flung them up in a golden shower through the crowd.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828) by Various
Fleurette smiled brightly at him, shaking her hair from side to side in a golden shower.
From The Flower Princess The Flower Princess; The Little Friend; The Mermaid's Child; The Ten Blowers by Brown, Abbie Farwell
He saw again the golden shower of light from the huge table-lamp, the vase of American Beauty roses, the lace scarf thrown carelessly across a brocade chair.
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth
Swiftly moving clouds only now and then allowed a gleam to light up any object, whether ugly or beautiful, that happened to stand within its golden shower.
From Middlemarch by Eliot, George
This noise took nothing from the charm of the drive, which the stars, so numberless in autumn, seemed to follow with a golden shower.
From Jack 1877 by Sherwood, Mary Neal
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