cloud bank
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See also: cloudbank
English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
cloud bank (plural cloud banks)
- A wall of clouds, rising above horizon or observed from a distance, but not overhead.
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 6:
- The hills were slate under the stacks of black cloudbank.
- 1919, Joseph Conrad, Typhoon:
- "Then he wrote: “Sunset threatening, with a low bank of clouds to N. and E. Sky clear overhead.”"
Translations[edit]
a wall of clouds observed from a distance
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