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n. - A curllike tuft.

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Usage examples (9)
  • Naret uirtnque binffi: vel forte anterior cirrhus narifdrmts.
  • The brigade was now upon the Front Royal and Winchester pike, moving in the foot and wheel prints of the advance, and under and through an extended cirrhus cloud of...
  • Just then the moon getting clear of some cirrhus clouds, and shining brighter than ever, lights up an object hitherto unnoticed by him, but one he recognises as an old...
  • The zenith was a deep blue, darkening opposite the setting sun, and paling over it into a peach colour, and that again near the horizon passing into a glowing orange-red,...
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