star-shower

English

Noun

star-shower (plural star-showers)

1. 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.