coalsmoke
See also: coal-smoke
English
editNoun
editcoalsmoke (uncountable)
- Alternative form of coal-smoke.
- 1988, A[rthur] Bryson Gerrard, “Scotland”, in Butterflies & Coalsmoke, Oxford: Susan Abrahams, →ISBN, pages 108–109:
- During the long wait in the station another smell assailed our nostrils; a compound of coalsmoke, fish, oranges and other fruit and vegetables. […] Out in the village there was a new smell: peatsmoke, a much more romantic smell than coalsmoke – the railway was now far away.
- 1990, Robert Pinsky, “Skies of the City: A Poetry Reading”, in Gene W[illiam] Ruoff, editor, The Romantics and Us: Essays on Literature and Culture, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, pages 175–176:
- The sunrise of Hopkins—with “brown brink” suggesting a cloud of industrial smoke—presents the streaks and colors of the sun, seen through the air full of coalsmoke, as an image of the Holy Ghost.
- 2017, Sarah Moss, “London, summer 1878”, in Signs for Lost Children, New York, N.Y.: Europa Editions, →ISBN, page 16:
- They are city-dwellers, men whose lives pass in the shadows of buildings, whose lungs are silted with coalsmoke, and few will ever cross the sea.