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peat-smoke

peat-smoke noun: smoke from burning peat.

Noun

peat-smoke (uncountable)

  1. Smoke from burning peat.
    • “I would rather sleep on the fresh heather, as I have done many a night on less occasion,” said Roland Graeme, “than in that smoky garret of your father’s, that smells of peat-smoke and usquebaugh like a Highlander’s plaid.”1820, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and...
    • There was a smell of evening and of coolness after a hot day and a slight scent of peat-smoke that came from cassava being roasted in one of the fishermen's huts in the village away to the right.1954, Ian Fleming, “Passionate Leave”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 242

Examples of peat-smoke in a sentence

  • And inland from the castle, nestling below it on the low-lying greensward of the peninsula, was an entire town of cot-houses and huts, over which hung a blue haze of peat-smoke.2012, Nigel Tranter, Past Master:
  • For example: you smell peat-smoke, and you recall some occasion when you smelt it before.2015, Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind: Top Philosophy Collections:
  • Firelight and a cloud of peat-smoke met us on the threshold, and set me to coughing.2015, G. R. Grove, Flight of the Hawk:

Forms of peat-smoke

alternative formpeat smoke
alternative formpeatsmoke

Questions about peat-smoke

What does peat-smoke mean?
Peat-smoke means smoke from burning peat.
How do you use peat-smoke in a sentence?
And inland from the castle, nestling below it on the low-lying greensward of the peninsula, was an entire town of cot-houses and huts, over which hung a blue haze of peat-smoke.
What part of speech is peat-smoke?
Peat-smoke is a noun.

Words near peat-smoke in the dictionary

  1. peat spade
  2. peat spades
  3. peat swamp
  4. peat swamps
  5. peat-reek
  6. peat-smoke
  7. peataries
  8. peatary
  9. peatbog
  10. peatbogs
  11. Peate

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