star-shower

plural star-showers

1. alternativeAlternative form of star shower.

   I see the waves upon the shore Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown;

   1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples

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   The next great star-shower from the Leonid swarm is expected before dawn on the morning of-November 17 or 18, 1999.

   1978, Robert Burnham, Jr., Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System: Volume Two: Chamaeleon Through Orion, →ISBN, page 1064

   On the morning of November 14, 1867, a star-shower equal in magnitude to that of 1866 was observed in France and America, but was almost wholly invisible in Britain, on account of the cloudy state of the atmosphere.

   2009, Peter Terry, Proofs of the Prophets--The Case for Baha'u'llah, →ISBN, page 140