smoke-dried
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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At one point he admits to sleeping comfortably one night "with half-a-dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head".
From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2013
Parson Weems wrote them at odd moments along the road�biographies of Washington, of Franklin, of Penn and�his best book�of General Francis Marion, the "little, smoke-dried, French-phizzed" Swamp Fox.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Nhamo gutted the little fish and smoke-dried them over her cook-fire.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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Cringing, the old man pointed to a great shell that held water, and pushed towards the fire another shell in which were strips of smoke-dried fish.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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My very countenance hath changed its fashion, forsooth; being smoke-dried and tarnished, like your two years' hung stock-fish.
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John
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