wall clouds

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of wall cloud.
  wall cloud

  noun

  a large, localized cloud that usually develops at the rear of a storm, sloping inward toward the precipitation and, when rotating, signaling a potential tornado; one of the two main types of arcus. Compare shelf cloud.

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wall clouds

Allen's monstrous wall clouds, the most powerful part of a hurricane, reached out 70 miles from the eye.

From Time Magazine Archive

And as he stared it seemed to him that there passed upon the wall clouds upon clouds of exquisite and evanescent colour, and that strange forms appeared and moved upon the clouds.

From The Divine Fire by May Sinclair

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