equinoctial rains

plural noun

1. rainy seasons that occur in numerous regions near the equator, near or soon after the times of the equinox.

Example Sentences

During the equinoctial rains, he spent the whole of a dismal day indoors, listening to the unceasing downpour on the outside of his log, watching it through his door and through portholes he had made—the infinite pall of falling rain, the sagging, wet vegetation, the drops dripping from everything as if counting themselves, the runnels and pools, the misty distances—and feeling an ancient melancholy.

From Literature

When o'er this world, by equinoctial rains Flooded immense, looks out the joyless sun, And draws the copious steam; from swampy fens, Where putrefaction into life ferments, And breathes destructive myriads; or from woods, Impenetrable shades, recesses foul, In vapors rank and blue corruption wrapp'd, Whose gloomy horrors yet no desperate foot Has ever dar'd to pierce—then, wasteful, forth Walks the dire power of pestilent disease.

From Project Gutenberg

At nightfall—for Hector lingered as long as he could—the young shepherd quitted the party with great regret; but there was no time to lose, for he had two leagues to go, and there was no moon, and the roads were still broken into immense ruts by the equinoctial rains.

From Project Gutenberg