OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 41528

rain cloud

Meanings (ES + gloss)
nimbo
A cloud from which rain is falling or may fall.
Between the grey mist of rainclouds the sun suddenly appeared to mottle the wet asphalt of Marble Arch in patches of silver and ebony.
During this fine run through Fife the weather had deteriorated rapidly, and as we passed Wormit and came onto the Tay Bridge heavy rain clouds were piled over the sea.
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