Refers to a gentle, light rain. The term is not extremely common in daily conversation but is understood.
He was walking quietly in the light rain.
rain falling at a sad time; condoling rain
Poetic or literary expression for rain that seems to fall in sympathy with human sorrow, often at funerals or sad occasions.
On the day of the funeral, the condoling rain seemed to express the mourners' grief.
Compound of 涙 (なみだ, tears) and 雨 (あめ, rain). The exact historical origin is uncertain, but the word likely arose from the poetic image of rain as tears.