cloudage

[ klou-dij ]

/ ˈklaʊ dɪdʒ /

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noun Meteorology.

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Origin of cloudage

First recorded in 1810–20; cloud + -age

Words nearby cloudage

clotting factor, clotty, cloture, clou, cloud, cloudage, cloud band, cloud base, cloudberry, cloudbow, cloudburst

How to use cloudage in a sentence

Then with all the buoyant liberties of cloudage they rise—rise!
A History of American Literature Since 1870|Fred Lewis Pattee
And cloudage, to borrow an expression of Coleridge, suggested England, too.
East of Paris|Matilda Betham-Edwards
So she was in the best of moods as an antidote to mind-cloudage.
Somehow Good|William de Morgan