acloud

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ cloud.

Adjective

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.