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woodsmoke en · NOUN

Etymology

From wood + smoke.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Smoke from burning wood.
   • I came to the southern end of a line of cliffs loftier than any I had seen before, and as I approached them, there was wafted to my nostrils the pungent aroma of woodsmoke. What could it mean? There could, to my mind, be but a single solution: man abided close by, a higher order of man than we had as yet seen, other than Ahm, the Neanderthal man. 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:

Forms

Coordinates

coal-smoke · cigar smoke · peat-smoke · oilsmoke

Hypernyms

smoke · emission

Relateds

wood-smoked · smokewood · wood-fired · woodstove · firesmoke