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French
Etymology
From nue + -ée.
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Noun
nuée f (plural nuées)
- (chiefly formal or literary) thick cloud
- cloud (of arrows, insects)
- horde, host, swarm (of people, birds, enemies etc.)
1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 13, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 2:On n’entendait que les petits cris faibles d’une nuée d’oiseaux de passage qui traversaient le ciel à une hauteur immense.- All that could be heard were the weak, distant cries of a flock of migratory birds crossing the sky at an immense height.
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Noun
nuée f (plural nuées)
- (Jersey) cloud
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