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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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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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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For food we had smoke-dried plantains, which had been cooked first, and then dried on an orala by smoking them.
From Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People by Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)
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