cloud bank

See also: cloudbank

English

Alternative forms

• cloudbank

Noun

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, published 2010, page 6:

     The hills were slate under the stacks of black cloudbank.

   • 1919, Joseph Conrad, Typhoon:

     "Then he wrote: “Sunset threatening, with a low bank of clouds to N. and E. Sky clear overhead.”"

Translations

a wall of clouds observed from a distance

• Catalan: nuvolada (ca) f
• Finnish: pilvivalli (fi)
• French: barre de nuages f
• Maori: mamaru (Referring to this phenomenon when dark in colour.)
• Occitan: rampa de nivols f
• Russian: гряда облаков; облачная гряда f
• Swedish: molnbank c