pluvious

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She was pale, the lips pressed tight, the pluvious eyes blinking rapidly.

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  1. adjective Characterized by heavy rainfall; rainy.

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  • She was pale, the lips pressed tight, the pluvious eyes blinking rapidly. —  Là-bas
  • Like Chancellor Swithin before him, and like Chancellor Wolsey in a later time, Chancellor Becket was a royal tutor; [35] and like Swithin, who still remains the pluvious saint of humid England, and unlike —  A Book About Lawyers
  • He once, indeed, wished that they would amend the roof of his book-room, which "rained in" [I-23] in a very pluvious manner; but receiving no direct answer from our friend Meiklewham, who neither relished the proposal nor saw means of eluding it, the minister quietly made the necessary repairs at his own expense, and gave the heritors no farther trouble on the subject. —  St. Ronan's Well
  • A vaporous grey mist had entirely usurped the heavens, and the plash of weary rain resounded through the pluvious metropolis of the west. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French pluvieus, from Latin pluviōsus, from (aqua) pluvia, rain (water), feminine of pluvius, of rain, from pluere, to rain; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from ME.pluvyous = French pluvieux = Provencal ploios = Sp .pluvioso = Portuguese pluvioso, chuvoso = Italian piovoso, from Latin pluvius, rainy, causing or bringing rain, from pluere, rain, impers.pluit, it rains.
 

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