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cloud rack

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noun

  1. a group of moving clouds

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The evening of the second day they sighted land through the cloud rack, Point Barrow.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cloud rack hung above, a vault of gloom in which the upper winds coursed sadly.

From A Dozen Ways Of Love by Dougall, Lily

I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud rack.

From A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson by Anson, Adrian Constantine

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