snowcloud

See also: snow cloud

English

Etymology

From snow +‎ cloud.

Noun

snowcloud (plural snowclouds)

1. (uncommon) Alternative form of snow cloud
   • 1971, Aerospace Safety, Department of Defense, Department of the Air Force, page 13:

     If power is sufficient, a hover above the snowcloud may be established in an attempt to move the loose snow and uncover a hover reference.

   • 1986, John McPhee, Rising from the Plains; reprinted in Annals of the Former World, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, page 345:

     The sky over Thermopolis was dark with snowcloud.

   • 2000, Rita J. McNamara, Walking in Circles: Notes from the Middle of Nowhere, Xlibris US, →ISBN, page 13:

     A chicory blue sky, not a snowcloud in sight, bends warm shafts of sunlight through the kitchen windows.