acloud

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

a- +‎ cloud

Adjective[edit]

acloud (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Made cloudy; clouded.
    • 1877, Sidney Lanier, Song of the Chattahoochee:
      Crystals clear or acloud with mist, / Ruby, garnet and amethyst
    • 1915, Winston Churchill, A Far Country:
      One awoke of a morning to the twittering of birds, to walk to school amidst delicate, lace-like shadows of great trees acloud with old gold: the buds lay curled like tiny feathers on the pavements.
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