firesmoke

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

fire +‎ smoke

Noun[edit]

firesmoke (uncountable)

  1. Smoke from a fire.
    • 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 59, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 290:
      He wrote of the love and hate between Judah and Colette and he burned down not only her brothel but several more and he raised the Frenchtown paranoia and destruction to such a level of calamity that the city seemed to be engulfed in a constant cloud of firesmoke.