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acloud en · ADJ

Etymology

From a- + cloud.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, poetic) Made cloudy; clouded.
    • 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. 1915, Winston Churchill, A Far Country:
    • Crystals clear or acloud with mist, / Ruby, garnet and amethyst 1877, Sidney Lanier, Song of the Chattahoochee: