showery
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes:-aʊəɹi
Adjective
[edit]showery(comparativeshowerier,superlativeshoweriest)
- Given toshowers;havingfrequentrainfall.
- 1901August –1902April,A[rthur] Conan Doyle,chapter 3, inThe Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes,London:George Newnes,[…],published1902,→OCLC:
- A gentleman goes forth on ashoweryand miry day. He returns immaculate in the evening with the gloss still on his hat and his boots.
- 2007,William Trevor,“The Children”, inCheating at Canasta,New York: Viking, pages157–8:
- The sun came out after what had been ashowerymorning, allowing the celebration to take place in the garden.
- Of or relating to a shower or showers.
- 1667,John Milton,“Book VI”, inParadise Lost.[…],London:[…][Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC;republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…],London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC,lines757-9:
- Over their heads a crystal firmament, / Whereon a sapphire throne, inlaid with pure / Amber, and colours of theshoweryarch.
- 1951,C. S. Lewis,chapter 9, inPrince Caspian,Collins, published1998:
- She knew exactly how each of these trees would talk if only she could wake them, and what sort of human form it would put on. She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft,showeryvoice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face, and fond of dancing.