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Cloudy; overcast; gloomy. Bailey.

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_Genealogy_ is a _nubilous_ Piece of Conceit, instead of being any — An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)

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from French nubileux = Spanish nubloso = Portuguese Italian nubiloso, from Late Latin nubilosus, cloudy, from Latin nubilus, overcast, cloudy, from nubes, a cloud, = Sanskrit nabhas, a cloud, akin to nebula, mist, cloud: see nebule.

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