| 单词 | darling shower |
| 释义 | > as lemmasDarling shower Darling shower n. a local name for a dust-storm. ΚΠ 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 115/1 Darling Shower, a local name..for a dust storm, caused by cyclonic winds. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 20 Feb. 10/1 The Riverina breeds a particularly distressful variety of dust-storm known as ‘Darling showers’. 1936 A. Russell Gone Nomad viii. 65 By this time, owing to the protracted drought, sand-storms or ‘Darling showers’, as we facetiously called them, had become an almost daily occurrence in the Red Country. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. x. 189 Cobar shower, denotes a duststorm. Darling shower, Wilcannia shower, and Bedourie shower are employed similarly. < as lemmas |
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