cloud-capped
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of cloud-capped
First recorded in 1600–10
Example Sentences
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The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great Line itself—all this shall dissolve, and leave not a rendering behind.
From Slate • Aug. 1, 2022
Accordingly, in Rize, where terraced tea plantations run up into cloud-capped mountains, Gulek decided on a new gambit�shopping.
From Time Magazine Archive
Facing the cloud-capped mountains the brown and white Berghof itself�huge echoing rooms, wide halls, bedrooms for 40 guests, guards' turrets, flower gardens, machine-gun nests�seemed as unreal as the home of the Troll kings.
From Time Magazine Archive
It concluded with the remark that Mount Donald which towers over Field was cloud-capped during the visit and did not uncover for "God Save the King."
From Time Magazine Archive
But on the blind there lagged a cloud-capped shadow till the doctor's pipe was well in blast.
From The Camera Fiend by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
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