golden shower


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

Origin of golden shower

1
First recorded in 1910–15

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How to use golden shower in a sentence

  • He could not make her a princess but he could make her a countess, and he would clothe her in a golden shower.

    The Hosts of the Air | Joseph A. Altsheler
  • And the vagrant we saw just now, on whom you bestowed a golden shower of remembrance as Father Zeus endowed the fair Danae?

    Complete Short Works | Georg Ebers
  • On the golden shower and hall, where the wives again conversed respecting conjugial love, n. 208.

  • El-Soo thrust the scoop into the heap, and with a sudden turn whirled the contents out and down to the Yukon in a golden shower.

    Lost Face | Jack London
  • She was a pretty child, with her hair gathered up high and falling in a golden shower.

    A Little Girl in Old Boston | Amanda Millie Douglas