star-shower
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Noun
star-shower (plural star-showers)
- Alternative form of star shower
- 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples:
- I see the waves upon the shore Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown;
- 1978, Robert Burnham, Jr., Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System: Volume Two: Chamaeleon Through Orion, →ISBN, page 1064:
- The next great star-shower from the Leonid swarm is expected before dawn on the morning of-November 17 or 18, 1999.
- 2009, Peter Terry, Proofs of the Prophets--The Case for Baha'u'llah, →ISBN, page 140:
- On the morning of November 14, 1867, a star-shower equal in magnitude to that of 1866 was observed in France and America, but was almost wholly invisible in Britain, on account of the cloudy state of the atmosphere.
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