cloud bank

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cloud bank (plural cloud banks)

  1. A wall of clouds, rising above horizon or observed from a distance, but not overhead.
    • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 6:
      The hills were slate under the stacks of black cloudbank.

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