Leaf-storm

Alternative forms

• leaf storm
• leafstorm

Full definition of leaf-storm

Noun

1. 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, ...
• 1998, Charles William Smith, Understanding Women: A Novel http://books.google.com/books?id=jiu_h8X0xzUC, , 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.