[It.] A flooded river, a mountain torrent; also the dry bed left by it.
1820. T. S. Hughes, Trav. Sicily, II. x. 244. The road was no more than a fiumara, over which at this time a torrent from the melted snow was flowing.
1833. Newman, Lett. (1891), I. 396. We passed various fiumaras—dry, of course; one of then was about 250 paces, had two rapid brooks still alive in it.
1859. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 104. The burns and runnels descending from the upper heights form fiumaras of considerable extent, and of picturesque aspect.
