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summer-cloud
(Also summer's cloud.)
A cloud such as is seen on a summer day, esp. one that is fleeting or does not spoil the fine weather. Also allusively.
1605Shakes. Macb. iii. iv. 111 Can such things..ouercome vs like a Summers Clowd, Without our speciall wonder? 1671Milton P.R. iii. 222 A shelter and a kind of shading cool Interposition, as a summers cloud. 1727Watts Hope in Darkness i. in Horæ Lyricæ i. (1743) 133 What tho' a short Eclipse his [sc. God's] Beauties shrowd 'Tis but a Morning Vapour, or a Summer-Cloud. 1792S. Rogers Pleas. Mem. Poems (1839) 3 As summer-clouds flash forth electric fire. 1820Scott Abbot xxxvi, Floating in the wind, as lightly as summer clouds. 1893E. Phillpotts Summer Clouds 54 There are people in the world..who would say that we had had a row to-day... I should describe the matter myself as—well, merely a passing summer-cloud. |