| 单词 | smoke-wreathed |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmoke-wreathed 6. As the second element in compounds: surrounded, encircled, or enshrouded with the specified substance, as in cloud-wreathed, smoke-wreathed, etc. Cf. wreathe v. 7a. Π 1817 T. Clifford & A. Clifford Topogr. & Hist. Descr. Parish of Tixall 90 No stupendous mountain, rearing its insuperable, snow-wreathed summit above the clouds. 1854 F. I. Duberly Jrnl. 15 May in Mrs Duberly's War (2007) 9 Snow-capped and cloud-wreathed mountains. 1869 M. Twain Innocents Abroad (1922) I. xii. 99 Among fog-wreathed peaks and never-melting snows. 1999 J. Elliot Unexpected Light (2000) 8 I got to know my first Afghans in the smoke-wreathed alleys of the old city. 2009 Esquire Mar. 96/1 The brilliantly realised television drama..set in the vermouth-sodden, nicotine-wreathed Valhalla of New York's Madison Avenue advertising fraternity. < as lemmas |
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