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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Fog; mist.

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Examples

  • In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, It perch’d for vespers nine; Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, Glimmer’d the white moonshine.

    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. IN SEVEN PARTS 1909

  • He leaned his elbow on the window-sill behind which stood that sealed fountain of lovely sound, looked up at the moon, careless of her or of aught else in heaven or on earth, and sunk into a reverie, in which nothing was consciously present but a stream of fog-smoke that flowed slowly, listlessly across the face of the moon, like the ghost of a dead cataract.

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

  • Whiles [16] all the night, through fog-smoke white,

    Selections from Five English Poets Thomas Gray 1743

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