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vapour trail
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ High overhead, a jet laid its vapour trail across a bleached-blue sky. ▪ It was leaving an impressive vapour trail . ▪ Ruth flopped back in the lounger and studied the vapour trail through half-closed eyes.
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n. (context British English) A contrail.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Vapour Trail " is a song by British shoegazing band Ride . It is the closing track of the band's debut album, Nowhere (1990), released on Creation Records , and was later released as a single in the United States in early 1991. Written by lead guitarist ...
Usage examples of vapour trail.
It was just starting to make a vapour trail when he lost sight of it, glinting and disappearing over the Pentland Hills.
The sky was a searing-blue dome, marked only by a high vapour trail and the lights of habitats.
It left a vapour trail and hissed like a warrior, and its bite was yet more deadly!
But there was never any sign of their presence, save an occasional vapour trail high against the blue of the stratosphere.
As a high-flying jet may leave a vapour trail behind it, so the outward-bound vessel of the Overlords left its own peculiar wake.
Binky fought for height, rising nearly vertically with his hooves thrashing the air and his breath curling away behind him like a vapour trail.
As his eye traced the slowly dissolving vapour trail across the sky, Bodhidharma Mahanayake Thero - eighty-fifth of his name - had a sudden and most un-monkish fantasy.