groundmist

plural groundmists · alternative ground-mist · alternative ground mist

1. countableuncountableA low-lying fog.

   A low fog rolled across the frozen water, faint ripples thickening into groundmist at the tree line.

   2006, Craig Davidson, Rust and Bone

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   Coleman was the last of the aristocratic governors; not truly aristocratic, of course, but such as is so designated in Mississippi, where the landed gentry claims a bloodline that disappears kindly into the groundmists four or five generations ago, an aristocracy of certitude that nothing will ever change.

   1968, Robert Sherrill, Gothic Politics in the Deep South: Stars of the New Confederacy

   The old wrought-iron lamps on Bennett's Walk cast weak electric beams through the groundmist, making me think of London and Tyne Street and Jack the Ripper.

   1999, Stephen King, Hearts In Atlantis, page 471

   Groundmist was waist-high and looked as thick as candlegrease. The trees were in a silent semicircle within the mist.

   2011, Phil Rickman, Candlenight

   Synonyms: ground fog