Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capped with clouds; touching the clouds; lofty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having clouds resting on the top or head; reaching to the clouds.
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Examples
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The valley ran from the horseshoe, land - locked bay to the tops of the dizzy, cloud-capped peaks and contained perhaps ten thousand acres.
Chapter 42 2010
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The mountains to the east look glorious, cloud-capped against a deep blue sky, so terrifying before – beauty is a complicated thing in Bosnia.
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Born below the ever cloud-capped peaks that gave the mountains their name, the wind blew east, out across the Sand Hills, once the shore of a great ocean, before the Breaking of the World.
Quakers in Spain superversive 2006
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It is not surprising if many want to ask what exactly we have been rubbing into our eyes to avoid seeing the possible consequences of our fascination with the cloud-capped towers of a virtual reality.
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The sky was cloud-capped, an expanse of bleached gray.
The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007
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The sky was cloud-capped, an expanse of bleached gray.
The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007
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It was a dismal picture—the light was bleak and the cloud-capped sky was gauzy and pale; the buildings and lampposts were smears of charcoal.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006
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It was a dismal picture—the light was bleak and the cloud-capped sky was gauzy and pale; the buildings and lampposts were smears of charcoal.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006
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It was a dismal picture—the light was bleak and the cloud-capped sky was gauzy and pale; the buildings and lampposts were smears of charcoal.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006
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Its final disposition was in a deep and lonely mountain tarn, which, according to later tradition, was on a mountain, still called Pilatus actually pileatus or 'cloud-capped', close to Lucerne.
Archive 2005-03-20 2005
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