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cloudwashed en · ADJ

Etymology

From cloud + washed.

Meanings

1. Swept by or enshrouded in clouds.
   • Back in the present, I'm safe for awhile^([sic]) in my puttering house care, my junk pile, and trips to the cloudwashed countryside. 2008, Dexa! Dog, Raw Days/Candid Views on Manic Depression and the Human Condition, unnumbered page:
   • The peaks are beautiful alpine, snow-capped, cloudwashed things, but often the skier stays in the foothills and the passes, more convenient though less spectacular. 1949, Joan Landman, David Landman, Where to Ski: Ski Guide to the U. S. and Canada, Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1949, page 157:
   • Outside there was the soft patter of summer rain and the sky was pale with the rising, cloudwashed sun. 1992, Philippa Gregory, The Wise Woman, Touchstone, published 2008, →ISBN, page 449:

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