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nimbus

nim·bus

US/ˈnɪmbəs/ rare

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Learned borrowing from Latin nimbus (“dark cloud”). Doublet of nimb. Sense 2 (“grey rain cloud”) was coined by the British chemist and amateur meteorologist Luke Howard (1772-1864): see the 1803 quotation.

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