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Definition of Pea-souper
1. Noun. A heavy thick yellow fog.
Definition of Pea-souper
1. Noun. (British Canada informal) A dense, yellowish fog. ¹
2. Noun. (Canada slang derogatory) A French-Canadian person, especially a Francophone from the province of Québec. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pea-souper
Literary usage of Pea-souper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of a Royal Academician by John Callcott Horsley (1903)
"SOME beneficent change in the elements has taken place respecting London fogs,
and several winters have now passed without the real "pea-souper," which was ..."
2. How Botha and Smuts Conquered German South West: A Full Record of the by W S Rayner, W.W. O'Shaughnessy, Leo Weinthal (1916)
"... that enveloped them as completely as any London '' pea-souper '' could have
done, when men see each other as through a glass darkly. ..."
3. Marama: A Tale of the South Pacific by Ralph Stock (1913)
"What wouldn'tI give to see a genuine pea-souper again? I'd go out and walk into
lamp-posts with a fiendish joy; breathe it, taste it, grovel in it. ..."
4. The Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals in South Africa, 1900-1902 by Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals Committee, Georgiana Spencer-Churchill Curzon Howe (1902)
"By 11 am the wind freshened from the west, dense clouds of dust making the
atmosphere like that of a London pea-souper, filling our mouths and eyes and ..."
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