electric fire

English

Noun

electric fire (plural electric fires)

1. (UK, Ireland) A fire, stove or heater powered by electricity.
   • 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 69:

     [A] skinny blonde of about twenty sitting in an armchair by an electric fire reading a true romance magazine.

   • 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 67:

     An electric fire came next, followed by an umbrella and then a colander.

   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 2:

     He was watching television when I got in. The curtains were drawn, and he had dug out an old half-broken electric fire; it was extremely hot.

Translations

fire, stove or heater powered by electricity

• German: Elektroofen m
• Irish: tine leictreach f