peat-smokeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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peat-smoke (uncountable)

1. Smoke from burning peat.

   Hypernyms: smoke < emissions

   Coordinate terms: coal-smoke, woodsmoke, oilsmoke; cigar smoke

   • 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 John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 145:

     “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.”

   • 2012, Nigel Tranter, Past Master:

     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.

   • 2015, Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind: Top Philosophy Collections:

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

   • 2015, G. R. Grove, Flight of the Hawk:

     Firelight and a cloud of peat-smoke met us on the threshold, and set me to coughing. Mixed with the peat-smoke was the wonderful odor of hot food.

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