golden shower

noun

a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.

First recorded in 1910–15

He could not make her a princess but he could make her a countess, and he would clothe her in a golden shower.

And the vagrant we saw just now, on whom you bestowed a golden shower of remembrance as Father Zeus endowed the fair Danae?

On the golden shower and hall, where the wives again conversed respecting conjugial love, n. 208.

El-Soo thrust the scoop into the heap, and with a sudden turn whirled the contents out and down to the Yukon in a golden shower.

She was a pretty child, with her hair gathered up high and falling in a golden shower.

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