golden shower
a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
Origin of golden shower
1- Also called pudding-pipe tree.
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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. AltshelerAnd 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 EbersOn the golden shower and hall, where the wives again conversed respecting conjugial love, n. 208.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love | Emanuel SwedenborgEl-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 LondonShe 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
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