woodsmoke

English

Etymology

wood + smoke

Noun

woodsmoke (uncountable)

  1. smoke produced from burning wood.
    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII
      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.

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