schour
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old English sċūr, from Proto-West Germanic *skūru, from Proto-Germanic *skūrō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃuːr/
Noun
schour (plural schoures)
- Rainfall, precipitation (falling waterdrops)
- 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto:
- Whan that Auerill wt his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath ꝑced to the roote / And bathed euery veyne in swich lycour / Of which v̄tu engendred is the flour […]
- When that April, with its sweet showers / Has pierced March's drought to the root / And bathed every vein in fluid such that / with its power, the flower is made […]
- (poetic) An attack or assault (whether physical, emotional, or rhetorical)
- (poetic, by extension) A battle; a military conflict.
- (poetic, rare) A flow or stream of liquid.
- (poetic, rare) A profusion of blessings.
References
- “shǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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