cloud-capped

American  

[kloud-kapt] / ˈklaʊdˌkæpt /

adjective

1. surrounded at the top by clouds.

   cloud-capped mountains.

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Etymology

Origin of cloud-capped

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

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

The views — of enormous cloud-capped mountains, distant buttes and unblemished scrublands — are predictably stunning.

From Time

Gamers have already romped in sprawling open worlds, scaled distant cloud-capped mountains, felt the frisson of stepping into whopping and improbably detailed virtual landscapes where “You can go anywhere you can see!”

From Time

This sea of leafy timber rolled away and away in knobs like the surface of porridge, until it was finally lost in remote mountains which nobody had ever visited, and the cloud-capped towers and gorgeous palaces of heaven.

From Literature

The World Heritage railway, opened in 1881, is a tourist magnet for a leisurely ride on narrow gauge tracks, offering splendid views of cloud-capped hillsides and people going about their daily routines.

From Reuters