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cloud-capped

[ kloud-kapt ]

/ ˈklaʊdˌkæpt /

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adjective

surrounded at the top by clouds: cloud-capped mountains.

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Nearby words

cloud over, cloud peak, cloud physics, cloud rack, cloud seeding, cloud-capped, cloud-cuckoo land, cloud-cuckoo-land, cloudage, cloudberry, cloudbow

Origin of cloud-capped

First recorded in 1600–10

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for cloud-capped

It has the most picturesque and striking aspect of any mountains in those regions, of old forests and cloud-capped peaks.
The Treasure of Pearls|Gustave Aimard
The modern Prospero would see me at 3.30, in his office in one of "the cloud-capped towers."
The Affable Stranger|Peter McArthur
On the cloud-capped summit of Olympus was the palace of Zeus and Hera, of burnished gold, chased silver, and gleaming ivory.
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome|E.M. Berens
We would spend the months face to face with the lake, the high-perched hotels and villages, the snow-capped, cloud-capped hills.
The Car That Went Abroad|Albert Bigelow Paine

But in sooth very different is the history of these cloud-capped mountains.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete|Washington Irving