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mackerel sky

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Definition:
a sky flecked with small white clouds; a cirro-cumulus.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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A cool breeze off the Channel, a mackerel sky overhead and, far out, a column of sunlight falling onto a trawler

Mark Haddon. The Pier Falls and Other Stories (2016)
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The sky was what is called a mackerel sky--rows and rows of faint down-plumes of cloud, just tinted with the midsummer sunset.

H.G. Wells. War of the Worlds (1898)
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Overhead the blue sky was beginning to silt up with mackerel scales.

Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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