Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ring of clouds; specifically, a cloudy belt or region north and south of the equator.
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Examples
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In the square, Black Bavh stared at the cloud-ring spreading away over the valley and leapt to her feet.
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The boatswain is only weather-wise from his experience as a sailor; but Curtis, in addition to his experience, has some scientific knowledge, and he pointed out to me an appearance in the sky known to meteorologists as a “cloud-ring,” and scarcely ever seen beyond the regions of the torrid zone, which are impregnated by damp vapours brought from all quarters of the ocean by the action of the trade-winds.
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And higher still it rose, and entered a second great cloud-ring, but this ring was white; and once more it emerged from the cloud-ring, and high over all towered the pyramid of shining stone.
A Child's Book of Saints William Canton 1909
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The boatswain is only weather-wise from his experience as a sailor; but Curtis, in addition to his experience, has some scientific knowledge, and he pointed out to me an appearance in the sky known to meteorologists as a "cloud-ring," and scarcely ever seen beyond the regions of the torrid zone, which are impregnated by damp vapours brought from all quarters of the ocean by the action of the trade-winds.
The Survivors of the Chancellor, diary of J.R. Kazallon, passenger Jules Verne 1866
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