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banner cloud

noun

Etymology

From banner + cloud. From being a banner-like cloud that hangs off a mountain like a flapping flag.

  1. derived from *gel-✻ — “to ball up, clench”
  2. inherited from *klūtaz✻
  3. inherited from *klūt✻
  4. inherited from clūd — “mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”
  5. inherited from cloud
  6. compounded as banner cloud — “banner + cloud”

Definitions

  1. a small, triangular cloud, extending downwind from the peak of a mountain as if a flag,…

    a small, triangular cloud, extending downwind from the peak of a mountain as if a flag, or banner.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA