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CLOUDLESS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Free from clouds
Example:
under a cloudless sky
Synonyms:
cloudless; unclouded
Classified under:
Similar:
clear (free from clouds or mist or haze)
Derivation:
cloudlessness (the lightness of a sunny day when there are no clouds in the sky)
Context examples:
On either side, as the path mounted, the long sweep of country broadened and expanded, sloping down on the one side through yellow forest and brown moor to the distant smoke of Lymington and the blue misty channel which lay alongside the sky-line, while to the north the woods rolled away, grove topping grove, to where in the furthest distance the white spire of Salisbury stood out hard and clear against the cloudless sky.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They had been floating about all the morning, from gloomy St. Gingolf to sunny Montreux, with the Alps of Savoy on one side, Mont St. Bernard and the Dent du Midi on the other, pretty Vevay in the valley, and Lausanne upon the hill beyond, a cloudless blue sky overhead, and the bluer lake below, dotted with the picturesque boats that look like white-winged gulls.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless, and the lane, which the maid’s window overlooked, was brilliantly lit by the full moon.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Her brow was clear and ample, her blue eyes cloudless, and her lips and the moulding of her face so expressive of sensibility and sweetness that none could behold her without looking on her as of a distinct species, a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
