matchflare
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
matchflare (plural matchflares)
- The flaring of a lit match.
- 1979, Irving Layton, Droppings from Heaven:
- I am a matchflare / you are another / Together / for an instant / we pierce the surrounding / dark
- 2000, Anthony Lawrence, In the Half Light:
- In the next matchflare I saw names carved into a dry section over my head: Vivian, David, Robert, Mel.