Meanings
plural cloudlines
- The line formed by the surface of clouds.
The focus on specific types of outcomes that qualify as genocide is analogous to studying the peaks of mountains from above a cloudline that only particularly tall mountains penetrate[…]
2010, Donald Bloxham, A. Dirk Moses, The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies
Origin
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