cloud-capped
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of cloud-capped
First recorded in 1600–10
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Such cloud-capped, towering judges of culture and anarchy have dissolved in today's bland intellectual climate.
From Time Magazine Archive
To many, it might seem a strange concern for a state whose vast prairies roll wide and empty to the horizon, whose lonely mountains range back toward the cloud-capped Continental Divide.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first and still biggest pleasure complex to sprout in the wilderness, in 1962, was the Kaanapali Beach Resort on Maui's west coast, overlooking the cloud-capped, green-velvet islands of Molokai and Lanai.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dartmoor is larger, wilder, and grander in the bold contours of its cloud-capped tors, but the wildness of Exmoor is blended with a sweet and gentle charm which is all its own.
From Exeter by Haslehust, E. W.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
