rain shower

a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.

Origin of rain shower

before 1000; Middle English; Old English

He sees the gunners busy on the left, the horses standing behind them as if all the whistling sounds are only a rain-shower.

Impressions of a War Correspondent |George Lynch
These two streams of truth are like the rain-shower that falls upon the watershed of a country.

Expositions of Holy Scripture |Alexander Maclaren
Only one feature in the diagram was fortunately absent the evening we went up, namely, the rain-shower e.

Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures |Arabella B. Buckley
But we were not to be discomfited by a rain-shower, for were we not prepared?

Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 1/2 |Ida May Hill Starr

Not one blast of the storm, not one drop of the rain-shower of vengeance, can overtake you.

The Hart and the Water-Brooks; |John R. Macduff