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名詞

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.”"