Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small cloud or something resembling one.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small cloud.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little cloud.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
small , or a tiny cloud.
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Like this, a cloudlet, only stuffed with fur, with furthers?”
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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“Like this, a cloudlet, only stuffed with fur, with furthers?”
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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“Like this, a cloudlet, only stuffed with fur, with furthers?”
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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An unbroken blue flooding the whole sky; a single cloudlet upon it, half floating, half fading away.
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In the midst of the cloudlet in question there was a bloody point so small that it disappeared during the contraction and escaped the sight, but in the relaxation it reappeared again, red and like the point of a pin; so that betwixt the visible and invisible, betwixt being and not being, as it were, it gave by its pulses a kind of representation of the commencement of life.
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Claws became interlocked, and they fell each with distended crest, like a gilt-edged cloudlet following the setting sun.
Tropic Days 2003
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And in your eye — floateth there not a cloudlet of unforgotten earthly bliss?
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Taking the driver's seat, he spelled a windfield around us and a cloudlet overhead for shade.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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The cloudlet hazed her head; stray locks fluttered like flame.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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We reversed the front seat of the Landlouper and sat face to face under the cloudlet, eating off our laps.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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