subnuvolar
English edit
Etymology edit
From sub- + Italian nuvola (“cloud”). Compare Latin subnubilus (“somewhat cloudy”).
Adjective edit
subnuvolar (not comparable)
- (nonce word, obsolete, poetic) Under the clouds; partly covered or obscured by cloud.
- 1844, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, “The Burden of Egypt”, in Palm Leaves:
- Subnuvolar lights of evening sharply slant.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “subnuvolar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)