peat reek

British  

noun

1. the smoke of a peat fire

2. whisky distilled over a peat fire

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peat reek

Mrs. M'Crawney was an Irishwoman who was always sighing for the mild, moist climate and the peat reek of her childhood's home.

From A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods by Bessie Marchant

No bein' fit to write in Greek, I write in Lallan, Dear to my heart as the peat reek, Auld as Tantallon.

From Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson

Mrs. M'Crawney was low-spirited and homesick, yearning for Ireland, for the smell of the peat reek and the society of her neighbours.

From A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods by Bessie Marchant

Wi’ a’ this care and a’ this grief, And sma,’ sma’ prospect of relief, And nought but peat reek i’ my head, How can I write what ye can read?—

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

Some people, in order to give the kipper a peculiar taste, highly relished by not a few, carefully smoke it with peat reek, or the reek of juniper bushes.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827 by Various