frost smoke

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Noun[edit]

frost smoke (uncountable)

  1. A phenomenon resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in times of severe cold.
    Synonyms: Arctic smoke, Arctic sea smoke
    • 1853, Elisha Kent Kane, The United States Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin:
      The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters.
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