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dry fog

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noun

Meteorology.
  1. a fog that does not moisten exposed surfaces.


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It was a light, dry fog, and for two or three hours the deck, and rigging, and the clothes of those on board remained quite dry.

From Lost in the Fog by James De Mille

In the year 1782 the sun was for many weeks obscured by a dry fog, and appeared red as through a common mist.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

The snowstorm offers a problem analogous to the dry fog.

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

The first of these was in the year 526, when a dry fog covered the Roman Empire with a red haze.

From The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire by Charles Morris

She dreamed she was on a horse, hurried along with prodigious rapidity, in a darkened atmosphere, a sort of dry fog: she knew somehow she was being taken to see some awful, mysterious thing.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various

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