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frost smoke en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A phenomenon resembling smoke, caused by the congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in times of severe cold.
    • The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters. 1853, Elisha Kent Kane, The United States Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin:

Synonyms

Arctic smoke · Arctic sea smoke