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.