groundmists

Noun

groundmist (countable and uncountable, plural groundmists)

1. A low-lying fog.
   • Coleman was the last of the aristocratic governors; not truly aristocratic, of course, but such as is so designated in Mississippi, where the landed gentry claims a bloodline that disappears kindly into the groundmists four or five generations ago, an aristocracy of certitude that nothing will ever...1968, Robert Sherrill, Gothic Politics in the Deep South: Stars of the New Confederacy

   Synonyms:

   ground fog