peat-smoke

English

Alternative forms

peat smoke, peatsmoke

Noun

peat-smoke (uncountable)

  1. Smoke from burning peat.
    • 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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