Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of peat-smoke.
Celia lay staring up at the beams blackened from peatsmoke.
1973, Anya Seton, Green Darkness3 more examples
There was a door, and a window on one side of it, and a chimney from which a small spiral of pungent peatsmoke ascended.
1969, Eona K. Macnicol, The Hallowe'en Hero: And Other Stories, page 54Out in the village there was a new smell: peatsmoke, a much more romantic smell than coalsmoke – the railway was now far away.
1988, A[rthur] Bryson Gerrard, “Scotland”, in Butterflies & Coalsmoke, Oxford: Susan Abrahams, →ISBN, page 109He could smell the spilled whisky from the broken glass, a ghost of peatsmoke.
2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 147
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peatsmoke. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/peatsmoke
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