cloudwashed

cloudwashed

English

Etymology

cloud +‎ washed

Adjective

cloudwashed (comparative more cloudwashed, superlative most cloudwashed)

1. Swept by or enshrouded in clouds.
   • 1949, Joan Landman & David Landman, Where to Ski: Ski Guide to the U. S. and Canada, Houghton Mifflin Company (1949), page 157:

     The peaks are beautiful alpine, snow-capped, cloudwashed things, but often the skier stays in the foothills and the passes, more convenient though less spectacular.

   • 1992, Philippa Gregory, The Wise Woman, Touchstone (2008), →ISBN, page 449:

     Outside there was the soft patter of summer rain and the sky was pale with the rising, cloudwashed sun.

   • 2008, Dexa! Dog, Raw Days/Candid Views on Manic Depression and the Human Condition, unnumbered page:

     Back in the present, I'm safe for awhile in my puttering house care, my junk pile, and trips to the cloudwashed countryside.