ground-mist

plural ground-mists

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of groundmist.

   To be first on the road, Up with the ground-mists and pheasants.

   2010, Seamus Heaney, Seeing Things, page 8

   3 more examples

   Two and a half miles below, smoke from the artillery bombardment drifted like dirty ground-mist, speckled with soft, small flashes.

   2011, Derek Robinson, Hornet's Sting

   His situation was that of a man who stands on a patch of ground with mountains sharp-etched all around, but the middle distance hidden by a white sea of ground-mist.

   2012, Fritz Leiber, Swords of Lankhmar

   At 4:00 a.m., soon after the ground-mist had materialized, the 1st Australian Division commenced its advance with the 8th Victorian Battalion leading on the right, and assorted companies from the 10th, 11th, and 12th battalions leading the 3rd Brigade on the left.

   2014, Brereton Greenhous, James McWilliams, R. James Steel, The Torch We Throw