📚 noun • entry_id 34421
mackerel sky
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cielo aborregado
A sky filled with a regular pattern of altocumulus clouds somewhat resembling the skin of a mackerel.
1717, Dictionarium Rusticum, Urbanicum & Botanicum, London: J. Nicholson et al., 2nd edition, “CLOUDS,” […] in a fair day, if the Sky seem to be dappled with white Clouds, which is…
The clouds were of the fleecy kind, which sailors denominate a mackerel sky.
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