frost smoke

English

Noun

frost smoke (uncountable)

1. A phenomenon resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in times of severe cold.

   Synonyms: Arctic smoke, Arctic sea smoke

   • 1853, Elisha Kent Kane, The United States Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin:

     The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters.