Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fog; mist.
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Examples
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In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, It perchd for vespers nine; Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, Glimmerd the white moonshine.
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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
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Whiles [16] all the night, through fog-smoke white,
Selections from Five English Poets Thomas Gray 1743
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