onder de rook van

Dutch

Etymology

Literally, “under the smoke of”.

Preposition

onder de rook van

  1. in the shadow of a larger place, especially a settlement or polity
    Hij woonde in een huisje in het bos onder de rook van Utrecht. ― He lived in a small house in the woods in the shadow of Utrecht.

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