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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A work of art representing a view of clouds.
  • noun A photograph showing a view of clouds, such as those surrounding a planet.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A scene composed of clouds; a painting of such a scene.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a work of art or other image depicting sky and clouds

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Examples

  • A line of bubbles streamed out, sixty-four fithp falling above the fluffy cloudscape.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • Only seventy thousand miles above the turbulent Jovian cloudscape, and completing each orbit in less than twelve hours, Jupiter V is the nearest thing to a natural synchronous satellite in the whole Solar System.

    Tin 2010

  • Mr. Davidson's four pictures are from his "The Nature of Paris" series, and include "Jardin Saint Gilles Grand Veneur, 2006," with its formal rose gardens and a glorious cloudscape of the type usually seen only in Baroque paintings.

    Crossing Delicate Borders William Meyers 2010

  • It really is a book where kids can look for a kitten in a cloudscape.

    Toy Review: Leapfrog TAG 2008

  • Ziegler's 2006 painting, Study for Euphemism for Something, captures many of these apparent paradoxes: it features a cloudscape converted into CGI on an inkjet printout, then worked over by hand with correction fluid.

    Artist of the week 113: Toby Ziegler Skye Sherwin 2010

  • Their cloudscape consists of 99.9% air formed by modular balls that congregate to make areas for sitting, playing, mingling and even swimming!

    BIG's Bubbly Cloudscape for PS1 Can Be Recycled as Messenger Bags | Inhabitat 2010

  • The two pathetic artificial tulips in "Nyack, 2007," each in its own vase on the windowsill, are seen against a backdrop of vertical blinds, but reflected in the top of the picture is a glorious cloudscape.

    Elegance in the Ordinary William Meyers 2010

  • The two pathetic artificial tulips in "Nyack, 2007," each in its own vase on the windowsill, are seen against a backdrop of vertical blinds, but reflected in the top of the picture is a glorious cloudscape.

    Elegance in the Ordinary William Meyers 2010

  • The fabric used to make the cloudscape would be translucent recycled PVC, recovered from recycled truck bed covers and bags.

    BIG's Bubbly Cloudscape for PS1 Can Be Recycled as Messenger Bags | Inhabitat 2010

  • It really is a book where kids can look for a kitten in a cloudscape.

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

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