RAINBOW
NOUNS
► ARCH a rainbow → 1623 obs.
► BOW a rainbow → 1930 Amer. dial.
► GAD a small rainbow in the horizon portending bad weather → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► HEAVEN-BOW a rainbow → c1320 obs.
► RAINY BOW the rainbow → a1649 obs.
► RAWN a fragment of a rainbow → 19C Sc.
► WATER DOG a halo around the sun; a short strip of rainbow → 1954 Amer. dial.
► WIND-GALL fragments of rainbows seen on detached clouds → 1823 Amer. dial.
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