ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Fogfall

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Fogfall is a noun meaning The act or time of a cloud of fog falling over an area.

Meaning

The act or time of a cloud of fog falling over an area.

More Meanings

  1. An instance (i.e. a cloud) of fog that has fallen or developed over an area.
  2. A tumbling of fog from a higher area to a lower one, visually reminiscent of a waterfall.

Example Sentences

It becomes surface water runoff through atmospheric scouring associated with rainfall and fogfall.
He could see it gilding the ridges westward and slowly burning the fogfall that lay over Topanga Park.
Roaring in from the south and the ocean, we saw a rolling white bank of clouds falling onto the bay and the town, a thick dense curse of a fog crawling downward, a fogfall,
The fogfall that lay along the crest in a cottony roll was as white as the clouds of a fairytale. Only the heads of the men in the skip were visible from where she stood just outside the door of the shaft house.

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Related dictionary entries include fogbow, fumulus, fogline, fret, floccus, felling.

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