cumulus
- n a globular cloud
- n a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- With his high-heeled shoes and cumulus-cloud hairdo, Kim Jong Il displays a taste for the gaudy that is at odds with his country's spartan ways.
- Democratic Chairman William Boyle resigned his job under a cumulus cloud of influence peddling, and his successor was hardly in office before clouds gathered over him too.
- The new Pope was also energetically shouldering his way through a massive cumulus of routine and ritualreopening the papal study, which had been sealed on Pius XII's death .