cloudscape
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- noun
- /ˈklaʊdˌskeɪp/
- The artist captured a breathtaking cloudscape that dominated the canvas with vibrant hues and dynamic shapes.
Examples
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What we see at first is a cloudscape; then, as the eye adjusts to meaning, at the bottom left of the photograph appears a different kind of cloud.
Blog text (13) -
Instead, I concentrated on the places that were close—the crevices and clefts in the cloudscape that looked so inviting to explore and could suck you in and kill you in a heartbeat.
Fiction book (1999) -
Cloudscapes can be spectacular by themselves without any other subject included.
Academic text (2006) -
Sitting alongside Llenor, with nothing to do but enjoy the cloudscape, was like visiting some neighboring dimension.
Fiction book (2000) -
"The vast cloudscape thickens."
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Off to the north and west, the lightning flashed, lighting the cloudscape and the ground and leaving a purple afterimage burned into my eyes.
Fiction book (1999) -
Here, the girl was sitting in the shade under a roof with a bright cloudscape around it. Without a reflector, I cannot get her bright enough to compete with the background, so I expose for the face and let the sky and sea parts whitewash.
Blog text (13) -
The persimmon farms and the views and the cloudscapes are all real," she writes, "though the snakes are (so far) fictional.
Fiction book (1995) -
A shifting cloudscape that changing digital environment is why lawyers need to learn about developments in cloud computing, says Michael F. Fleming, who chairs the Cyberspace Law Committee in the ABA Section of Business Law.
Academic text (2010) -
Each photograph in the exhibit showcased a stunning cloudscape, highlighting the beauty of the sky at different times of day.
Synonyms
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A view of the sky shown in a painting or photo
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cloudscape joins cloud and scape, and scape is the same ending you see in landscape, meaning a 'view'. So, a cloudscape is a view or picture where the sky and clouds are the main subject.