wolcen-wyrcende

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wolcen-wyrcende, adj: cloud-producing. (WOLL-ken-WUER-chen-duh / ˈwɔl-kɛn-ˌwyr-tʃɛn-də)

Medieval manuscript illustration showing a blue pillar of cloud springing up from a field of flowers, extending up and to the left out of the green frame.
Das Buch der natürlichen Weisheit (Book of Natural Wisdom); Austria (Salzburg), c. 1430; British Library, Egerton MS 1121, f. 58v. [bl.uk]

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