单词 | freshet |
释义 | freshet/ˈfrɛʃɪt /noun 1The flood of a river from heavy rain or melted snow.Particularly high spring freshets would flood the quarries and put off the opening of the season....
1.1A rush of fresh water flowing into the sea.The springs and freshets which had been loosed in the course of the city's excavation had also been trained, and streams ran cheerfully down rough, natural-looking beds carefully inset into the smooth floors of passages and halls....
OriginLate 16th century: probably from Old French freschete, diminutive of freis 'fresh'. |
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