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Meanings of pea-souper in English

A heavy thick yellow fog.

Synonyms
Examples for "pea soup"
Examples for "pea soup"
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Then she took the old spoon and equally divided the pea soup.
Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days
2
Leo paused beside tins of pea soup stacked in a pyramid formation.
Agent 6
3
There are several ways to make ham and split pea soup.
The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
4
Children are mostly fond of pea soup, and it seldom disagrees with them.
Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepe...
5
It is like thick pea soup, but with a peculiar flavor.
The Women of the Arabs
Usage of pea-souper in English
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As such it was a happy team that returned to Trafford Park, where an intense pea-souper was waiting for them.
The Guardian
2
Under the ennui that hung over Leinster House this week like a gloopy pea-souper fog, some carried their pessimism heavier than others.
The Irish Times
3
On March 13 there was a tremendous fall of snow, and worst "pea-souper" we had had during the previous year.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
4
To the 'Pea-souper' every thing was new and wonderful.
In the Roaring Fifties
5
Pea-soupers and lime-juicers are strangers off shipboard.
In the Roaring Fifties
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Londoners, for example, took pea-soupers as a fact of life before clean air legislation was passed following the deadly smogs of the early 1950s.
The Guardian
7
'And pea-souper and lime-juicer?'
In the Roaring Fifties
Pea-souper through the time