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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as smoke-tree.

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Examples

  • The red sand was dotted with vegetation: a prickly bush here, a sand-creeper there; a clump of smoke-bush behind that.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Glenda Larke 2008

  • The red sand was dotted with vegetation: a prickly bush here, a sand-creeper there; a clump of smoke-bush behind that.

    Writing progress Glenda Larke 2008

  • Blackbirds sang recklessly in the shrubbery, swallows were flying high, the leaves above him glistened; and over the fields was every imaginable tint of early foliage, burnished by the level sunlight, away to where the distant ‘smoke-bush’ blue was trailed along the horizon.

    To Let 2004

  • Once he used the hunters 'hand signals to send them all into a thick stand of smoke-bush.

    Conan and The Gods of The Mountain Green, Roland 1993

  • Blackbirds sang recklessly in the shrubbery, swallows were flying high, the leaves above him glistened; and over the fields was every imaginable tint of early foliage, burnished by the level sunlight, away to where the distant "smoke-bush" blue was trailed along the horizon.

    The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let John Galsworthy 1900

  • Blackbirds sang recklessly in the shrubbery, swallows were flying high, the leaves above him glistened; and over the fields was every imaginable tint of early foliage, burnished by the level sunlight, away to where the distant "smoke-bush" blue was trailed along the horizon.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Blackbirds sang recklessly in the shrubbery, swallows were flying high, the leaves above him glistened; and over the fields was every imaginable tint of early foliage, burnished by the level sunlight, away to where the distant "smoke-bush" blue was trailed along the horizon.

    The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900

  • Bullets had cut away the rose-trees and the smoke-bush; the garden was no more.

    The Holy Cross and Other Tales Eugene Field 1872

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