groundmist
English
Etymology
ground + mist
Alternative forms
- ground-mist
Noun
groundmist (countable and uncountable, plural groundmists)
- A low-lying fog.
- 1968, Robert Sherrill, Gothic Politics in the Deep South: Stars of the New Confederacy:
- Coleman was the last of the aristocratic governors; not truly aristocratic, of course, but such as is so designated in Mississippi, where the landed gentry claims a bloodline that disappears kindly into the groundmists four or five generations ago, an aristocracy of certitude that nothing will ever change.
- 1999, Stephen King, Hearts In Atlantis, page 471:
- The old wrought-iron lamps on Bennett's Walk cast weak electric beams through the groundmist, making me think of London and Tyne Street and Jack the Ripper.
- 2006, Craig Davidson, Rust and Bone:
- A low fog rolled across the frozen water, faint ripples thickening into groundmist at the tree line.
- 2011, Phil Rickman, Candlenight:
- Groundmist was waist-high and looked as thick as candlegrease. The trees were in a silent semicircle within the mist.