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peat-smoke

noun

Definitions

  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.”
    • 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.
    • For example: you smell peat-smoke, and you recall some occasion when you smelt it before.

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