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April shower
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Noun
April shower (plural April showers)
- (UK and Ireland) A sporadic burst of light rain in the spring season, especially in the month of April.
- c. 1430, John Lydgate, Reason and Sensuality:
- Holsom as the Aprile shower fallying on the herbes newe.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Flower and the Leaf: Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A Vision.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 395:
- That pleaſing Shade they ſought, a ſoft retreat / From ſudden April Show'rs, a Shelter from the Heat.
- 2017 April 5, Harriet Walker, “How to look stylish in an April shower”, in The Times, Fashion:
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Holonyms
- See Thesaurus:spring
Related terms
- April showers
- April showers bring May flowers
- cumulus (“large white puffy cloud”)
Translations
rain characteristic of spring
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