"ecto-mist" meaning in All languages combined

See ecto-mist on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: ecto-mists [plural]
Etymology: From ecto- + mist. Etymology templates: {{af|en|ecto-|mist}} ecto- + mist Head templates: {{en-noun|~|head=ecto-mist}} ecto-mist (countable and uncountable, plural ecto-mists)
  1. A fog-like apparition associated with ghosts. Tags: countable, uncountable

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From ecto- + mist.",
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          "ref": "2011 October 8, Melba Goodwyn, Ghost Worlds: A Guide to Poltergeists, Portals, Ecto-Mist, & Spirit Behavior, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 24:",
          "text": "The hotel had revealed many interesting energy anomalies, orbs, and ecto-mists, but none as impressive as these apparitions.",
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          "ref": "2011 February 8, Melba Goodwyn, Chasing Graveyard Ghosts: Investigations of Haunted & Hallowed Ground, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 69:",
          "text": "The majority of graveyard ghost stories that involve voices being heard and ecto-mist or full apparitions being seen could very well be the work of a cemetery guardian.",
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          "ref": "2020 March 31, Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.: The #1 New York Times Bestseller, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:",
          "text": "There were no tipped-over bottles or clouds of ecto-mist swirling near the baseboards, nothing other than that weird, ominous moaning and the rattling of the walls that accompanied it.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 July 13, Ryan Douglass, The Taking of Jake Livingston, Penguin, →ISBN, page 157:",
          "text": "The shout sends ecto-mist ripping through his body so he rips apart at the cheeks and chest, his body splitting open at the neck and knees, until he pops in a burst of red smoke and then exits through the crevices of the door.",
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