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smoky

/ˈsmoʊki/ adjective B1
  1. Filled with smoke. · a smoky cabin
  2. Filled with or enveloped in tobacco smoke. · a smoky bar
  3. Giving off smoke. · a smoky oil lamp
  4. Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke.
  5. Having a flavour or odour like smoke; flavoured with smoke. · a smoky whisky
  6. Resembling or composed of smoke.
  7. Blackened by smoke.
  8. Addicted to or associated with the smoking of tobacco.

Comparative smokier · Superlative smokiest

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I was shown straight into his study, and there I found him, a huge, bow-backed man with a smoky skin and a straggling grey beard, seated behind his littered desk.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 6 · B2
At the mention of Monte Cristo Dantès started with joy; he rose to conceal his emotion, and took a turn around the smoky tavern, where all the languages of the known world were jumbled in a lingua franca.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 243 · C1
The smoky smell of the roasting meat is absolutely wonderful.
A Sunday Braai in Johannesburg, p. 1 · B1

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