leaf-storm

plural leaf-storms · alternative leaf storm · alternative leafstorm

1. A sudden whirlwind or downpour of leaves.

   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

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   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

   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

   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