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showery

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show·er 1  (shour)
n.
1. A brief fall of precipitation, such as rain, hail, or sleet.
2. A fall of a group of objects, especially from the sky: a meteor shower; a shower of leaves.
3. An abundant flow; an outpouring: a shower of praise.
4. A party held to honor and present gifts to someone: a bridal shower.
5.
a. A bath in which the water is sprayed on the bather in fine streams from a showerhead, usually secured overhead: take a shower.
b. The stall or tub in which such a bath is taken.
v. show·ered, show·er·ing, show·ers
v.tr.
1. To pour down in a shower: showered confetti on the parade.
2. To cover with or as if with a shower. See Synonyms at barrage2.
3. To bestow abundantly or liberally.
v.intr.
1. To fall or pour down in or as if in a shower.
2. To wash oneself in a shower.

[Middle English shour, from Old English scr.]

shower·y adj.

show·er 2  (shr)
n.
One that shows: a shower of thoroughbred horses; a shower of great affection.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.showery - (of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather"; "rainy days"
wet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather"
Translations
showery [ˈʃaʊərɪ] ADJ [weather] → lluvioso; [day] → lluvioso, de lluvia
it will be showery tomorrowmañana habrá chubascos or chaparrones
showery [ˈʃaʊəri] adj [weather] → pluvieux/euse
show flat n (British)appartement m témoin
showery
adjregnerisch
showery [ˈʃaʊərɪ] adj (weather) → con piogge intermittenti
showery [ˈʃaʊərɪ] adj (weather) → con piogge intermittenti


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Many long talks had been fruitless in external action, though fruitful for the understanding of the pair; but at last, one showery Tuesday, the Squire might have been observed upon his way to the cottage in the lane.
I tramped through the puddles and under the showery trees, mourning for Marguerite Gauthier as if she had died only yesterday, sighing with the spirit of 1840, which had sighed so much, and which had reached me only that night, across long years and several languages, through the person of an infirm old actress.
The high downs which invited them from almost every window of the cottage to seek the exquisite enjoyment of air on their summits, were a happy alternative when the dirt of the valleys beneath shut up their superior beauties; and towards one of these hills did Marianne and Margaret one memorable morning direct their steps, attracted by the partial sunshine of a showery sky, and unable longer to bear the confinement which the settled rain of the two preceding days had occasioned.
 
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