pluvial

• Formed in an era with a climate much different from ours, pluvial lakes covered wide swaths of the planet. —  About.com Geography
• At the great ceremonies he walked in front of the Chapter in his pluvial, carrying a silver stick nearly as tall as himself, making the tiles of the pavement re-echo with its blows. —  The Shadow of the Cathedral
• For this reason he could not repress a gesture of contemptuous superiority when having donned his pluvial, and clutching his silver stick, he advanced and spoke to any strange clergy from the neighbouring villages who visited the Primacy His faults were purely ecclesiastic; he saved in secret, with that cold, determined avarice so usual at all times in people attached to the Church. —  The Shadow of the Cathedral
• And this tete-a-tete decorated with flowers; and this pluvial cope in this case. —  Cosmopolis — Complete
• He will have to leave behind him-perhaps reluctantly-the dumbfounding spectacle of the present continental masses, firmly anchored to a plastic foundation yet remaining fixed in space; set thousands of kilometres apart, it may be, yet behaving in almost identical fashion from epoch to epoch and stage to stage like soldiers, at drill; widely stretched in some quarters at various times and astoundingly compressed in others, yet retaining their general shapes, positions and orientations; remote from one another through history, yet showing in their fossil remains common or allied forms of terrestrial life; possessed during certain epochs of climates that may have ranged from glacial to torrid or pluvial to arid, though contrary to meteorological principles when their existing geographical positions are considered - to mention but a few such paradoxes! " —  SaltShaker

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms