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peat smoke

peat smoke is the alternative form of peat-smoke.

Meaning of peat-smoke

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...

Questions about peat smoke

What is peat smoke the alternative form of?
Peat smoke is the alternative form of peat-smoke.

Words near peat smoke in the dictionary

  1. peat bogs
  2. peat moss
  3. peat mosses
  4. peat pot
  5. peat pots
  6. peat smoke
  7. peat spade
  8. peat spades
  9. peat swamp
  10. peat swamps
  11. peat-reek

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