Meaning of groundmist | Babel Free

Definitions

A low-lying fog.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Coleman was the last of the aristocratic governors; not truly aristocratic, of course, but such as is so designated in Mississippi, where the landed gentry claims a bloodline that disappears kindly into the groundmists four or five generations ago, an aristocracy of certitude that nothing will ever change.”

“The old wrought-iron lamps on Bennett's Walk cast weak electric beams through the groundmist, making me think of London and Tyne Street and Jack the Ripper.”

“A low fog rolled across the frozen water, faint ripples thickening into groundmist at the tree line.”

“Groundmist was waist-high and looked as thick as candlegrease. The trees were in a silent semicircle within the mist.”

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