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noun
- A sudden whirlwind or downpour of leaves.
- 1903, Caroline Brown, On the We-a Trail: A Story of the Great Wilderness http://books.google.com/books?id=cAcnAAAAMAAJ, 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 http://books.google.com/books?id=nxYPBVYqOEQC, 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.
- 1928, Mary Chapman as "Maristan Chapman", The Happy Mountain http://books.google.com/books?id=DM2QhbJDD4wC, page 119:
- One night, when the man had been making it sing like a leaf-storm in fall, ...
- 1982, Peter Straub, If You See Me Now http://books.google.com/books?id=y7_6lyd7F9EC, ISBN 0671451936, page 320:
- Through the leafstorm I ran toward her. She had fallen on the path, and a shower of small branches and stones came cascading down upon her.
- 1998, Charles William Smith, Understanding Women: A Novel http://books.google.com/books?id=jiu_h8X0xzUC, ISBN 0875651895, page 276:
- Do it!, stir up your energy until it's swirling around like a inside your body.
Translations: - German: Laubsturm
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- Spanish: hojarasca
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