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cloudcast

adj

Etymology

cloud + cast

  1. derived from chaste — “chaste”
  2. derived from castra — “fortification”
  3. formed as cloudcast — “cloud + cast”

Definitions

  1. Overcast.

    • [Weather:] Still, cloudcast sky.
    • […] the sun's warm rays / Shine out to welcome. Yet- / 'Neath cloudcast skies, "the weeping rain," / Or evening's darkest shade, / You still shine on with unclosed eye, / Undaunted, Undismayed!

  2. Cast by clouds.

    • ... frowns come and go / Like cloudcast shadows on the frozen snow.
    • […] die in the shadows cloudcast / Darken the night […]

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