spumous


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consisting of or resembling foam

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On a sunny midsummer day boys play on the river in a "crazy boat" that makes a "spumous track" on the water and whose oars stir up "vile smells." On such a day the whole town seemed to be "frying in oil," which "oozed" and "trickled" down through the many stories of the Fairy Palaces in which the atmosphere was like the "breath of the simoom" (112, 111).
Dickens's Literary Architecture: Patterns of Ideas and Imagery in Hard Times
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