Asmoke
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Smoking; giving off steam or fog. not-comparable
"It appeareth to me that even to praise one’s-self, although it be shameful, is less shameful than to throw a burning coal into the incense-box that another doth hold to waft before us, and then to snift and simper over it, with maidenly coyness, as if forsooth one had no hand in setting it asmoke."
Example
More examples"It appeareth to me that even to praise one’s-self, although it be shameful, is less shameful than to throw a burning coal into the incense-box that another doth hold to waft before us, and then to snift and simper over it, with maidenly coyness, as if forsooth one had no hand in setting it asmoke."
Etymology
From a- + smoke.
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