In an art gallery: the upper rows of pictures that cannot easily be seen; also, the place where such pictures are hung.
A cloud.
Origin
The noun is derived from Middle English ski, skie, sky, from Old Norse ský, from Proto-Germanic *skiwją, from *skiwô (whence Old English sċēo and Middle English skew), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-.
The verb is derived from the noun.
The English word is cognate with Old English scēo, Old Saxon scio, skio, skeo, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål sky, Old Irish ceo, Irish ceo. It is also related to Old English scūa, Latin obscūrus, Sanskrit स्कुनाति. See also hide, hose, house, hut, shoe.
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