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cloudlet

[ kloud-lit ]

noun

  1. a small cloud.


cloudlet

/ ˈklaʊdlɪt /

noun

  1. a small cloud
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cloudlet1

First recorded in 1780–90; cloud + -let
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Example Sentences

An unbroken blue flooding the whole sky; a single cloudlet upon it, half floating, half fading away.

Far down the line shone a cloudlet of white smoke and the gleam of brass through the dust.

Not a leaf the less on the ground, not a cloudlet in the sky.

She spoke, once more smiling, through the little cloudlet of steam.

Claws became interlocked, and they fell each with distended crest, like a gilt-edged cloudlet following the setting sun.

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