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leaf-storm en · NOUN

Meanings

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:
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms

Translations (10)

de Laubsturm (a wind-driven burst of dead leaves) · fi lehtipyörre (a wind-driven burst of dead leaves) · cmn 葉風暴 /叶风暴 (a wind-driven burst of dead leaves) · hu levélörvény (a wind-driven burst of dead leaves) · cmn 飛葉風暴 /飞叶风暴 (a wind-driven burst of dead leaves) · es hojarasca (a wind-driven burst of dead leaves) · eo folioŝtormo (a wind-driven burst of dead leaves) · ru ли́ственная бу́ря (a wind-driven burst of dead leaves) · sh zapuh lišća (a wind-driven burst of dead leaves) · fr bourrasque de feuilles (a wind-driven burst of dead leaves)