[Vocabulary] swirls

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Meja

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"A cart trundled through the freezing foggy streets, the driver hunched in his seat. He seemed to be all big thick brown overcoat.
A figure darted out of the swirls and was suddenly on the box next to him."

What does swirl(s) mean in this sentence? The only meaning I know and that I have seen in dictionaries is the one related to spiraling movement.
 

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It's short for "swirls of fog". The reader understands this from the previous reference to "foggy streets".
 
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