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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A narrow belt of alto-stratus having striæ which suggest a twisted rope. Such a rope-stratus sometimes surrounds the greater portion of the cumulus cloud, being formed by the twisted currents of air flowing from the cloud below and toward the cloud above.
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