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
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
Nhamo gutted the little fish and smoke-dried them over her cook-fire.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
I am afraid they are all over, blossomed and gone while I have been smoke-dried here.
From Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind by Martin, Frances
I looked round again at the smoke-dried kitchen in which we sat; it was a miserable place.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
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