northern streamers

English

Noun

northern streamers pl (plural only)

1. northern lights, aurora borealis
   • 1884, Alfred William Howitt, “On Some Australian Beliefs”, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, number 13, page 189:

     When the Kurnai of Victoria saw the Aurora Australis, which corresponds to the Northern Streamers of Europe, they exchanged wives for the day and swung the severed hand of a dead man towards it, shouting, "Send it away! do not let it burn us up!