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cloudlet

American  
[klaud-lit] / ˈklaʊd lɪt /

noun

  1. a small cloud.


cloudlet British  
/ ˈklaʊdlɪt /

noun

  1. a small cloud

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of cloudlet

First recorded in 1780–90; cloud + -let


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Lillias pointed to the bird, diminished almost to a speck, but relieved by the red light against a minute cloudlet.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

He crossed the open space of Flower Prairie while a cloudlet hid the moon.

From The Plunderer by Henry Oyen

Farwell looked towards the ceiling through a cloudlet of smoke.

From A Bed of Roses by Walter Lionel George

He will blot it out, as I have seen a gloomy cloudlet blotted out, and there has been nothing left but radiant sky.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

My Annie walks as light As shadow in the night Or downy cloudlet light Alang the fields o' blue.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers

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