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mackerel sky

noun

  1. an extensive group of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds, especially when well-marked in their arrangement: so called because of a resemblance to the scales on a mackerel.


mackerel sky

noun

  1. a sky patterned with cirrocumulus or small altocumulus clouds
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mackerel sky1

First recorded in 1660–70
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mackerel sky1

from the similarity to the pattern on a mackerel's back
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Example Sentences

The colors in her fur are like a mackerel sky.

"Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, not long wet nor not long dry," said a man in a black silk top hat to Tristran and Yvaine.

We stay in the present moment and talk about the mackerel sky and the planes she thinks are birds.

The lilies had died back to the ground; the bark of the crepe myrtles had all peeled away; there was a mackerel sky.

But now they were higher and smaller, settling at last into a mackerel sky like a beach at low tide.

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