leaf-storm

noun

leaf-storm

noun

1

A sudden whirlwind or downpour of leaves.

THE leaf-storm was ended. The sky was washed clear of every cloud and hung blue and brilliant above a little clearing in the Great Wilderness.1903, Caroline Brown, On the We-a Trail: A Story of the Great Wilderness, page 1:
Passers-by stop and watch; children run into the zone of the leaf-storm and in a few minutes are covered. For hours the beech tree weeps.1910, Houghton Townley, English Woodlands and Their Story, page 129:

2 more examples

One night, when the man had been making it sing like a leaf-storm in fall, ...1928, Mary Chapman, “Maristan Chapman”, in The Happy Mountain, page 119:
Do it!, stir up your energy until it's swirling around like a leaf storm inside your body.1998, Charles William Smith, Understanding Women: A Novel, →ISBN, page 276:

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