cloud bank

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a dense mass or broad piled-up layer of cloud, especially one seen near the horizon

   A dark cloud bank gathered in the west before the storm reached the valley.

A compound of cloud + bank. Bank has long described a piled or ridge-like mass, so the phrase compares a dense formation of clouds to a raised bank of earth or fog.

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