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Diners sit underneath a shower of bespoke crystal raindrops that sparkle against dark marble walls, gilded mirrors, and floor-to-ceiling shelving sculpted out of raw wood by French artist Jean-Guillaume Mathia.—Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2025 On a cool December evening as raindrops polka-dotted the pavement, longtime street performer Onunze Ubaka, 72, crooned Motown classics to a virtually empty corner off the usually busy Jackson Square in the French Quarter.—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025 On one end is an image of poppies, while the other features a bird and raindrops falling from and into a hand.—Sierra Knoch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2025 The first raindrops begin to fall late morning into the early afternoon.—Rachael Jay, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for raindrop
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of raindrop was
before the 12th century
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