Autumn-like

  • 07.133 There was an autumn-like mist white upon the ground

OED gives us neither “autumn-like” nor “autumnlike”, so I will call this a JRRT original.  Now, it may not be original to him at all, but a word that he saw in someone else’s uncommon text.  We tag it thus to bring it into the light of examination.

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