peatsmoke

English

Noun

peatsmoke (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of peat-smoke.
    • 1969, Eona K. Macnicol, The Hallowe'en Hero: And Other Stories, page 54:
      There was a door, and a window on one side of it, and a chimney from which a small spiral of pungent peatsmoke ascended.
    • 1973, Anya Seton, Green Darkness:
      Celia lay staring up at the beams blackened from peatsmoke.
    • 1988, A[rthur] Bryson Gerrard, “Scotland”, in Butterflies & Coalsmoke, Oxford: Susan Abrahams, →ISBN, page 109:
      Out in the village there was a new smell: peatsmoke, a much more romantic smell than coalsmoke – the railway was now far away.
    • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 147:
      He could smell the spilled whisky from the broken glass, a ghost of peatsmoke.
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