star shower
English
Alternative forms
- star-shower
Noun
star shower (plural star showers)
- Synonym of meteor shower
- 2001, Philip L. Rife, America's Nightmare Monsters, →ISBN, page 136:
- At first, we thought they were a star shower. But the “stars” stayed in a circle as if they were strung together like beads. Meteors scatter when they fall, so we soon realized we were seeing something else.
- 2007, Deirdre J. Fagan, Critical Companion to Robert Frost, →ISBN:
- The speaker opens by asking if we stayed up to watch the star shower known as Leonid that is “mysteriously pelted at us” once a year.
- 2012, Harry Bowling, That Summer in Eagle Street, →ISBN:
- 'We're waitin' fer the shower,' Jack told them. 'I don't fink there's any chance of it rainin' ternight,' Linda remarked. 'The silly ole sod's talkin' about a star shower,' Bill told them, turning to Jack.
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