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northern streamers en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only) northern lights, aurora borealis
    • When the Kurnai of Victoria saw the Aurora Australis, which corresponds to the Northern Streamers of Europe, they exchanged wives for the day and swung the severed hand of a dead man towards it, shouting, "Send it away! do not let it burn us up! 1884, Alfred William Howitt, “On Some Australian Beliefs”, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, number 13, page 189: