leaf-storm
See also: leafstorm and leaf storm
English
Alternative forms
Noun
leaf-storm (plural leaf-storms)
- A sudden whirlwind or downpour of leaves.
- 1903, Caroline Brown, On the We-a Trail: A Story of the Great Wilderness, page 1:
- 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.
- 1910, Houghton Townley, English Woodlands and Their Story, page 129:
- 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.
Usage notes
This is not commonly used in English, except as a translation of the title of a novella by Gabriel García Márquez, entitled Leaf Storm, or La Hojarasca.
Translations
a wind-driven burst of dead leaves
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