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cirrus (n.)
1708, "curl-like fringe or tuft," from Latin
cirrus
"a lock of hair, tendril, curl, ringlet of hair; the fringe of a garment." In meteorology,
cirrus clouds
attested from 1803. So called from fancied resemblance of shape.
