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Grammar : Noun
Spell : fresh-it
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfrɛʃ ɪt

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Définition of freshet

Origin :
  • 1590s, "stream flowing into the sea," from fresh (adj.1) in a now obsolete sense of "flood, stream of fresh water" (1530s). Old English had fersceta in the same sense. Meaning "flood caused by rain or melting snow" is from 1650s.
  • noun flood
Example sentences :
  • And, John, I did not tell them anything except that the freshet had swept me away.
  • Extract from : « Southern Lights and Shadows » by Various
  • At that time the water, clearing after a summer freshet, was fairly low.
  • Extract from : « Creatures of the Night » by Alfred W. Rees
  • During my return down the river, it was in a freshet, and we went headlong.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs » by Charles Godfrey Leland
  • "You might have to wait till next spring for a freshet," he said cheerfully.
  • Extract from : « The Tale of Timothy Turtle » by Arthur Scott Bailey
  • The roar of the freshet awoke Nan in her bed before daybreak.
  • Extract from : « Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp » by Annie Roe Carr
  • It may be imagined how piety intensifies in a freshet, or in a heavy gale of wind!
  • Extract from : « The Humbugs of the World » by P. T. Barnum
  • Logs, planks, and the other flotsam of a freshet moved on in the van of the flood.
  • Extract from : « Aladdin & Co. » by Herbert Quick
  • Just now the spring freshet had subsided, which meant that the river was clear of ice.
  • Extract from : « The Heart of Unaga » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • Some wanted a freshet, some wanted a drizzle, and some wanted a fog.
  • Extract from : « Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country » by Joel Chandler Harris
  • So, if my boy ever saw a freshet, it naturally made no impression upon him.
  • Extract from : « A Boy's Town » by W. D. Howells

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