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 Cloud, Clouds.Cloud (St.). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Cloud.
 
A dark spot on the forehead of a horse between the eyes. A white spot is called a star, and an elongated star is a blaze. (See BLAZE.)   1
       
“Agrippa. He [Antony] has a cloud on his face
Enobarbus. He were the worse for that were he a horse.”
       
Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 2.
 


 Cloud, Clouds.Cloud (St.). 

 
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