紅こう塵じん

noun

cloud of dust; mundane world

Literary term. Literally 'crimson dust', used for a cloud of dust raised by worldly activity, and metaphorically for the dusty, troubled secular world.

• 紅こう塵じんを避さけて山やまに隠かくれ住すむ。

  He hides away in the mountains to escape the dusty world.

• 街まちは紅こう塵じんにまみれていた。

  The town was covered in a cloud of dust.