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smaze|smeɪz|
[Blend of smoke n. and haze n.]
A mixture of smoke and haze.
1953Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 21 Nov. 1/6 (caption) Manhattan skyscrapers look like misty dream⁓castles as a combination of smoke and haze drifts around them. Called ‘smog’ by most people, the smoke-haze combination might more aptly be termed ‘smaze’. 1953N.Y. Times 22 Nov. 1/1 From smaze and smog, the city got down to an old-fashioned ocean fog yesterday. 1958Manch. Guardian 22 Nov. 4/4 Over seven million domestic chimneys emit at low level smoky particles and tarry substances which cause the urban ‘haze’ (or ‘smaze’) in industrial areas. 1960Daily Tel. 16 Nov. 1/8 A Weather Bureau official described the condition as a kind of smog-like haze. ‘Call it smaze,’ he said. 1968Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 3 July 3/7 That smoky, cloudy, dirty stuff that's been hanging around blurring the buildings of Brisbane these last few mornings is not smog, it's smaze. |