nightfire
English
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editnightfire (plural nightfires)
- A fire that is lit outdoors at night.
- 1979, John Brandi, Diary from a Journey to the Middle of the World, page 40:
- So I go on with my clowns & ponies, angels floating over peasants warming themselves by nightfires, devils, laborers, simple country girls, of donkey-bodied men & mystic bursts of rain over symbolic volcanoes.
- 2000, George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, page 884:
- I mean to have them all garrisoned again within the year, and nightfires burning before their gates.
- 2010, Alex Taylor, The Name of the Nearest River: Stories, →ISBN:
- Around the nightfires, I read Ezekiel and Leviticus and then spoke mysteriously about the quarry we chased, lengthening all I knew of the Harp gang into flatulent legend.
- Will o' the wisp.