Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any cloud from which rain falls: in meteorology called
nimbus .
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Examples
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It's an early summer day in Seattle, broad white of overcast but not rain-cloud, and one can see the ocean from the gallery building in which we stand observing Vrimjoet's gruesome handiwork in the trendy and cobblestoned part of downtown.
Ming Holden: What Does Ecuador Have to Do With Seattle? 2010
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This leads to the cenote, or well, into which human sacrifices and jade and gold ornaments were thrown to appease the rain-cloud god, Chac.
Chichen Itza, the Colosseum, and Statue of Christ the Redeemer: Three of the 7 'New' Wonders of the 2008
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Why drag a somber rain-cloud across a bright blue sky?
HBCUs Marian 2008
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This leads to the cenote, or well, into which human sacrifices and jade and gold ornaments were thrown to appease the rain-cloud god, Chac.
Travel Guide: the Seven Historical and Cultural Sites in Mexico 2007
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But when Bert went down to the gallery the world was empty and still, a clear inky-blue sky above and a rippled veil of still, thin sunlit cirrus below, through which one saw a racing drift of rain-cloud, and never a glimpse of sea.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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For a moment her gaze intersected mine, like those travelling skies on stormy days which hurry after a rain-cloud that moves less rapidly than they, overtake, touch, cover, pass it and are gone; but they do not know one another, and are soon driven far apart.
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The enchanted ceiling above them echoed Harry's mood; it was a miserable rain-cloud grey.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003
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The wind, rushing ahead of the rain-cloud, caught up the dust in the streets and advanced across the town.
How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long
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A rain-cloud comes down mingled with hail; the Tyrian train and the men of
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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On them, while the beaters run up and down, and the lawns are girt with toils, will I pour down a blackening rain-cloud mingled with hail, and startle all the sky in thunder.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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