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- adjective poetic, archaic
Capped withclouds .
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Examples
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I could win those heights, as I have won heights as cloudcapt, but with fearful loss of my own troops, and the massacre of every foe.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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I could win those heights, as I have won heights as cloudcapt, but with fearful loss of my own troops, and the massacre of every foe.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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This most beautiful of northern cities had not yet recovered from the ravages of the Seven Years War, concluded nearly a decade before: "It is difficult for a stranger to imagine himself near the celebrated capital of Saxony, … [since] so few of its once many cloudcapt towers are left standing; only two or three remain intire, of all the stately edifices which formerly embellished this city."
CounterPunch 2009
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