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cloud bank en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A wall of clouds, rising above horizon or observed from a distance, but not overhead.
   • The hills were slate under the stacks of black cloudbank. 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 6:
   • "Then he wrote: “Sunset threatening, with a low bank of clouds to N. and E. Sky clear overhead.”" 1919, Joseph Conrad, Typhoon:

Forms

Translations (10)

fi pilvivalli (a wall of clouds observed from a distance) · oc rampa de nivols (a wall of clouds observed from a distance) · sv molnbank (a wall of clouds observed from a distance) · ca nuvolada (a wall of clouds observed from a distance) · ko 구름밭 (a wall of clouds observed from a distance) · is skýjabakki (a wall of clouds observed from a distance) · ru гряда облаков (a wall of clouds observed from a distance) · ru облачная гряда (a wall of clouds observed from a distance) · mi mamaru (a wall of clouds observed from a distance) · fr barre de nuages (a wall of clouds observed from a distance)