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单词 fog-eater
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fog-eater
fog-eater n. originally Nautical slang (chiefly North American) a white or faintly-coloured arch similar to a rainbow, produced when sunlight shines through fog; cf. fogbow n.With allusion to the belief that the appearance of a fog-eater signalled the lifting of the fog.
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1828 Worcester (Mass.) Talisman 31 May He looked up and said, sternly, there is a fog eater—at this moment the sun seemed to flash upon our deck, and the fog rose from the sea.
1963 North (Ottawa) Mar. 11/1 With the calms come fog bows—the ‘fog-eater’.
2001 D. K. Lynch & W. Livingston Color & Light in Nature (ed. 2) 263/2 Fog-eater, name for fogbow by Nova Scotia fishermen.
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