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
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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The doctor, ever fertile in resources, had had a stone hut constructed in which both birds and fish could be smoke-dried after the fashion practised in England and elsewhere.
From The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews. by Kingston, William Henry Giles
I once travelled up to London with him and pointed out a great house that was gradually getting absorbed into the creeping metropolis but which still preserved its country characteristics, stately and smoke-dried.
From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher
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