mackerel sky

NOUN
  1. a sky filled with rows of cirrocumulus or small altocumulus clouds
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How To Use mackerel sky In A Sentence

  • Sir John Herschel compared it to a surface studded over with flocks of wool, or to the breaking up of a mackerel sky when the clouds of which it consists begin to assume a cirrous appearance. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
  • a mackerel sky filled with rows of clouds
  • These were cirrocumulus undulatus, known as a mackerel sky. Times, Sunday Times
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