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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A stationary cloud or cloud-mass above a cape or promontory, at the summit of a standing wave of air pushed up by the resistance of the cape to the wind; specifically [capitalized], the cloud-bank around the Cape of Agulhas at the southern end of Africa.

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