cloudlet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cloudlet
Example Sentences
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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
A puff of smoke, hanging like a cloudlet, guided his eyes.
From Rivers of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The organ's hum grew softer, and the censers swung with a silvery tinkling of their slender chains, releasing a cloudlet of white smoke, which unrolled in lacelike folds.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola
To him she only lifted up her shy glance, when the moon, that climbed up over a broken stairway of clouds stood overshadowed behind a little white cloudlet.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
"Upon the breast of a gigantic crag, A golden cloudlet rested for one night."
From The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
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