leaf-storm

See also: leafstorm and leaf storm

English

Alternative forms

• leaf storm
• leafstorm

Noun

leaf-storm (plural leaf-storms)

1. 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.

   • 1928, Mary Chapman, “Maristan Chapman”, in The Happy Mountain‎^[1], page 119:

     One night, when the man had been making it sing like a leaf-storm in fall, ...

   • 1998, Charles William Smith, Understanding Women: A Novel‎^[2], →ISBN, page 276:

     Do it!, stir up your energy until it's swirling around like a leaf storm inside your body.

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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飛葉風暴／飞叶风暴 (fēiyè fēngbào), 葉風暴／叶风暴 (yèfēngbào)

• Esperanto: folioŝtormo
• Finnish: lehtipyörre
• French: bourrasque de feuilles f
• German: Laubsturm m
• Hungarian: levélörvény (hu)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: ли́ственная бу́ря f (lístvennaja búrja)
• Serbo-Croatian: zapuh lišća
• Spanish: hojarasca (es) f