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snowcloud en · NOUN

Etymology

From snow + cloud.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, uncommon) Alternative form of snow cloud.
   alt of snow cloud
   • A chicory blue sky, not a snowcloud in sight, bends warm shafts of sunlight through the kitchen windows. 2000, Rita J. McNamara, Walking in Circles: Notes from the Middle of Nowhere, Xlibris US, →ISBN, page 13:
   • The sky over Thermopolis was dark with snowcloud. 1986, John McPhee, Rising from the Plains; reprinted in Annals of the Former World, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, page 345:
   • If power is sufficient, a hover above the snowcloud may be established in an attempt to move the loose snow and uncover a hover reference. 1971, Aerospace Safety, Department of Defense, Department of the Air Force, page 13:

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