Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cloud composed of fine globules of ice, or of globules of water colder than ice, which on touching any solid body adhere as frostwork; a frost-cloud; a rime-cloud: often a very low stratum of ice fog.
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Examples
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Above hung two excellent views, one of a Didonian, one of Aeneas seen from space, tawny-red, green - and blue-mottled, north polar cap as white as the streamers of ice-cloud.
The Day of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973
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Above hung two excellent views, one of a Didonian, one of Aeneas seen from space, tawny-red, green - and blue-mottled, north polar cap as white as the streamers of ice-cloud.
The Day Of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973
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Someone was out in that howling ice-cloud, screaming for help!
Unwise Child Randall Garrett 1957
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This broad and comparatively shallow glacier formed a sort of crawling, wrinkled ice-cloud, that gradually became more regular in shape and river-like as it grew older.
The Yosemite John Muir 1876
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