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  • noun thick, black smoke from burning oil

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Examples

  • She was so perfectthe color of her hair (white strands liberally mixed with the gold, a pale, silken helmet); the feel of her fur parka (white fur from a bardok, he had made it for her himself, as a present); even her scent (oilsmoke and sweet herbs).

    Time for Yesterday A. C. Crispin 1990

  • Faint washroom light bulbs deepen the thousands of old clustered water and soap spots on the mirrors to an interfeathering of clouds, of skin and smoke as he swings his head past, lemon and beige, oilsmoke black and twilight brown in here, very loosely crumbled, that's the texture ....

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

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