arcus
Americannoun
plural
arcusEtymology
Origin of arcus
< Latin: bow, arch
Example Sentences
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One evening, ominous, low-lying tube-shaped clouds known as arcus formed, and whitecaps appeared in the waves.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
Video shows a shelf cloud - a type of arcus cloud - form before a thunderstorm hit Portland.
From BBC • Sep. 13, 2022
To Cassiopeia, she added, “Next time, try pluvius arcus, dear; the meaning is clearer.”
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabar ante circulus Eramque curvus undique Ut alta solis orbita Et arcus ille nubium.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene
Hic diuersa basis fulget, variæque columnæ illarumq; arcus, Zophora, epistilia, Et capita atq; trabes, et cum quadrante coronæ symmetria, & quicquid tecta superba facit.
From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Dallington, Robert
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