banner cloud


nounMeteorology.
  1. a plume-shaped cloud extending downwind from an isolated mountain peak.

Origin of banner cloud

1
First recorded in 1905–10
  • Also called cloud banner .

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How to use banner cloud in a sentence

  • Watch the cloud banner from the funnel of a running locomotive: you see it growing gradually less dense.

    School Reading by Grades | James Baldwin
  • Watch the cloud-banner from the funnel of a running locomotive; you see it growing gradually less dense.

  • Occasionally a cloud banner streams far to the leeward of the mountain.

    Meteorology | Charles Fitzhugh Talman
  • Similar is the internal composition of a cloud-banner, though the movement of its parts is more easily perceived.

    The Alps | Martin Conway