white cloud
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of white cloud
By ellipsis from White Cloud Mountain fish, after a hill of the same name ( Chinese Bǎiyún shān ), NE of Canton, China, where the fish was discovered in 1932
Example Sentences
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Another sprayed a fire extinguisher, sending up a white cloud.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Albert Park looks resplendent under big blue autumn skies, punctuated by the odd fluffy white cloud.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024
In sunshine, under bright blue skies and streaks of white cloud, we might have puzzled over our atmospheric good fortune.
From Washington Post • Jun. 28, 2022
Longtime Freeport resident Gwendolyn Jones, 63, said she was about a mile or two from the facility when she saw a white cloud hovering over it after the fire.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 9, 2022
He couldn’t think or make his thought patterns begin to work: just swirling and the white cloud and the water on him, tons of water on him and he went under again.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
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