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Definition of Cumuli
1. cumulus [n] - See also: cumulus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cumuli
Literary usage of Cumuli
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearances by John Charles Van Dyke (1907)
"The most common clouds of all are the cumuli. In hot summer afternoons they gather
and ... Above the cumuli and often flung across them like bands of gauze, ..."
2. Heliographic Positions of Sun-spots Observed at Hamilton College from 1860-1870by Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters by Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1907)
"Very clear between cumuli. 18. A little undulating, with S. wind. 20. Clear, with
hazy clouds; steady images. 23. Clear, images sometimes a little blurred. ..."
3. Notes on the Principal Pictures in the Louvre Gallery at Paris: And in the by Charles Locke Eastlake (1883)
"... this landscape is remarkable for the truth and delicacy with which the cloud
cumuli rising from the horizon are painted. In respect both of form The ..."
4. The Scots Digest of Scots Appeals in the House of Lords from 1707 and of the by Robert Candlish Henderson, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1908)
"... of the cumuli) feu-duty, that the vassal was not entitled to deduction of the
annual sum of 15s. 5d., but only of 11s. 10} °d., being the parsonage ..."
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