Blanketing

Images from U.S. satellites show smoke blanketing South America from the thousands of fires burning in the Amazon.

The world's worst air this week is not in pollution hot spots like India or China. It's in the western United States, where record-breaking wildfires are blanketing the region with smoke.

1690, uncredited translator, The History of Scotland by George Buchanan, London: Awnsham Churchil, Book I, p. 23, But, now-a-days, many of them wear their Apparel of a dark brown colour, almost like Heath, that so, lying in the Heath-bushes, they might not, in the day-time, be discovered by their Cloaths. Being rather loosly happ’d, than closely covered, with this sort of Blanketing, they endure the fiercest weather […]

Then the blanketing tickles—you feel like mixed pickles—so terribly sharp is the pricking, And you’re hot, and you’re cross, and you tumble and toss till there’s nothing ’twixt you and the ticking.

Then Dick lay down in the dried ferns and covered himself with a piece of the striped flannel which they used for blanketing […]

Along the face of these limestone bluffs one observed a queer phenomenon of splashed yellow rocks, seemingly spilled from some gigantic cauldron, dried and hung out like blanketings in the morning sun.

blanketings of snow

Did one want grilled mushrooms, English fashion, they were there, black and moist and sizzling, and extremely edible; did one desire mushrooms à la Russe, they appeared, blanched and cool and toothsome under their white blanketing of sauce.

The stream made loops of water round their ankles. But none of that could show clearly through the swaddlings and blanketings of the Cambridge night.

Himself among the storied chiefs he spies, As from the blanket high in air he flies, And oh! (he cry'd) what street, what lane but knows Our purgings, pumpings, blanketings and blows?