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English
Etymology
From wood + smoke.
Noun
woodsmoke (usually uncountable, plural woodsmokes)
- Smoke from burning wood.
- Hypernyms: smoke, < emissions
- Coordinate terms: coal-smoke, peat-smoke, oilsmoke; cigar smoke
1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC: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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