April shower

noun

April shower

noun

1

Ireland, UK A sporadic burst of light rain in the spring season, especially in the month of April.

Holsom as the Aprile shower fallying on the herbes newe.c. 1430, John Lydgate, Reason and Sensuality:
That pleaſing Shade they ſought, a ſoft retreat / From ſudden April Show'rs, a Shelter from the Heat.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:

Related terms: April showers, April showers bring May flowers, cumulus
Hypernyms: rain
Holonyms: spring

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