1773 J. Macpherson tr. Homer II. xvi. 138 Beneath the rain-laden winds, the whole world is unrapt, in thick gloom.
1880 R. Kipling I. xiv. 329 The grey, rain-laden atmosphere.
1916 J. Joyce v. 204 The rain laden trees of the avenue evoked in him, as always, memories of the girls and women in the plays of Gerhart Hauptmann.
2006 (Nexis) 1 Aug. 20 All afloat were thoroughly soaked from the waves of rain-laden fronts.