Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A zone around the earth covered by clouds; the zone in which the cloudiness is a maximum; specifically, the equatorial zone.
- noun The belt or ring of clouds itself; a cloud-ring; a belt of clouds crossing a planet, as Jupiter, Saturn, etc.
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Examples
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In a couple of minutes she saw the cloud-belt below them rising rapidly.
A Honeymoon in Space George Chetwynd Griffith 1881
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The temperature of the interior of the _Astronef_ began to rise as soon as the upper cloud-belt was passed.
A Honeymoon in Space George Chetwynd Griffith 1881
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We were half an hour or more in the cloud-belt, where the singing skylarks did not follow us.
Time and Change John Burroughs 1879
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All the way till we reached the cloud-belt, we had the larks pouring down their music from the sky above us.
Time and Change John Burroughs 1879
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