cloudwashed

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adjective

Swept by or enshrouded in clouds.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectivecloudwashed (comparative more cloudwashed, superlative most cloudwashed)

comparative more cloudwashed · superlative most cloudwashed

  1. Swept by or enshrouded in clouds.

    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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    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

    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

Origin

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