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单词 red fog
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red fogn.1

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., fog n.1
Etymology: < red adj. + fog n.1
Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete.
Any of several types of red grass or moss. Cf. fog n.1 2.
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1703 M. Martin Descr. W. Islands Scotl. 233 Take a quantity of Lady-wrack, and half as much of Red-Fog, and boil them in water.
1729 W. Mackintosh Ess. on Inclosing Scotl. 63 It is seven or more Years before the red Fog, or the Moles throwing up, indicate.
1827 Gardener's Mag. July 458 The man that would seriously use red fog and common sorrel, when discussing a subject scientifically, can have had no botanical experience.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

red fogn.2

Brit. /rɛd ˈfɒɡ/, U.S. /ˌrɛd ˈfɔɡ/, /ˌrɛd ˈfɑɡ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., fog n.2
Etymology: < red adj. + fog n.2
Now rare.
1. A reddish sea haze resulting from the presence of sand or dust in the air.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > dry weather or climate > [noun] > dust-storm or sand-storm > dust-cloud or sand-cloud
red fog1828
brickfielder1829
sand-cloud1852
sea-dust1879
sirocco-dust1879
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [noun] > haze > due to presence of dust
red fog1828
calina1887
the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [noun] > state of being powdery > dust > cloud of > from dried rivers or lakes
red fog1828
sea-dust1879
sirocco-dust1879
1828 F. R. de Chateaubriand Trav. Amer. & Italy I. 191 We passed a very uncomfortable night..on a peninsula formed by swamps: the moon and all objects were enveloped in a red fog.
1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) vi. §322 Seamen tell us of ‘red fogs’ which they sometimes encounter.
1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 266/1 The dust or sand..may descend again..in the form of ‘red-fog’, ‘sea-dust’, or ‘sirocco-dust’.
1954 Alton (Illinois) Evening Tel. 20 Feb. 1/4 A ‘red fog’ was borne into Alton this morning by a south-west wind.
1997 W. Smith Birds of Prey 2003 546 He saw..the snaking regiments of foot-soldiers winding through the red fog like dying serpents.
2. Photography. A reddish deposit clouding a photographic negative or print. See fog n.2 4.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > qualities and effects > [noun] > indistinctness
veil1853
fogging1854
fog1856
halation1859
veiling1864
red fog1873
light fog1880
fuzz1889
soft focus1919
graininess1921
irradiation1924
unsharpness1961
1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts i. 254 A deposit of red fog will take place.
1909 Jrnl. Physical Chem. 13 543 He explains the tendency of the dichroic fog (red fog) to precipitate chiefly on the unexposed portions of the plate as follows.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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