The Only Use of
cataract
in
The Great Gatsby
- At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.†
p. 39.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(cataract) clouding of the natural lens of the eye
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, cataract can reference falling water as from a waterfall or series of rapids and waterfalls.