firesmoke

English

Etymology

From fire +‎ smoke.

Noun

firesmoke (uncountable)

1. Smoke from a fire.

   Hypernym: smoke

   Hyponym: coal-smoke

   Coordinate term: cigar smoke

   • 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.

Related terms

• second-hand smoke
• smokiness
• wildfire