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Definition of Golden rain
1. Noun. An ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum; often cultivated for Easter decorations.
Group relationships: Genus Laburnum, Laburnum
Generic synonyms: Flowering Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Golden Rain
Literary usage of Golden rain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"The houses and streets were covered with them, their phosphorescent bodies
appearing like golden rain. Sir Joseph Banks was the first to observe ..."
2. Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy by Jacques Ozanam, Jean Etienne Montucla (1814)
"Of golden rain. There are some flying-rockets which, as they fall, make small
undulations in the air like hair half frizzled. ..."
3. Islands of the Southern Seas: Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, Tasmania by Michael Myers Shoemaker (1898)
"... the " golden rain "—The Pali P)ROGRESS over the Western oceans has not I
attained the degree of speed that one is accustomed to on the North Atlantic. ..."
4. The Heart of a Garden by Rosamund Marriott Watson (1906)
"I DREAMED the peach-trees blossomed once again, I dreamed the birds were calling
in the dew, Sun-rays fell round me like a golden rain, And all was well ..."
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