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storm-clouded en · ADJ

Etymology

From storm cloud + -ed.

Meanings

1. Filled with storm clouds.
   • A storm-clouded sun cast strange lights on Captain Brown Blakeman’s face. 1957, Carolyn Ramsey, “‘Steamin’ at de Moon’”, in Cajuns on the Bayous, New York, N.Y.: Hastings House, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 23:
   • The ruined walls of an ancient building, stark and grey, stood out grimly desolate against the heavy, storm-clouded sky of the west. [1926], Helen M. Fairley, chapter XXIII, in Kali’s Jewels, London: Hutchinson & Co. […], →OCLC, page 284:
   • Melville’s subtitle identifies the painting—it shows a lake in the foreground and high, storm-clouded mountains behind—and adds that it was “owned by E. B.” 1995, John Hollander, “Varieties of Ecphrastic Agenda”, in The Gazer’s Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, Introduction, page 75:

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