So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

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Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.

Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.

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Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.

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(figuratively) Anything unsubstantial.

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A dark spot on a lighter material or background.

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A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.

He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.

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An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.

The comic-book character's thoughts appeared in a cloud above his head.

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A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings)

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Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

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But when he found that some of his interrogatories were evaded, and others answered undecisively, the look of gentleness which he had assumed, vanished, and his brow wore the cloud of disappointment and of anger.

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