单词 | smaze |
释义 | smazen. A mixture of smoke and haze. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [noun] > haze > mixed with smoke smaze1953 1953 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 21 Nov. 1/6 (caption) Manhattan skyscrapers look like misty dream~castles as a combination of smoke and haze drifts around them. Called ‘smog’ by most people, the smoke-haze combination might more aptly be termed ‘smaze’. 1953 N.Y. Times 22 Nov. 1/1 From smaze and smog, the city got down to an old-fashioned ocean fog yesterday. 1958 Manch. Guardian 22 Nov. 4/4 Over seven million domestic chimneys emit at low level smoky particles and tarry substances which cause the urban ‘haze’ (or ‘smaze’) in industrial areas. 1960 Daily Tel. 16 Nov. 1/8 A Weather Bureau official described the condition as a kind of smog-like haze. ‘Call it smaze,’ he said. 1968 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 3 July 3/7 That smoky, cloudy, dirty stuff that's been hanging around blurring the buildings of Brisbane these last few mornings is not smog, it's smaze. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1953 |
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