electric fire en · NOUN
Meanings
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(Ireland, UK) A fire, stove or heater powered by electricity.
An electric fire came next, followed by an umbrella and then a colander.
1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 67:[A] skinny blonde of about twenty sitting in an armchair by an electric fire reading a true romance magazine.
1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 69: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.
1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 2:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| electric fires | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (2)
de Elektroofen (fire, stove or heater powered by electricity) · ga tine leictreach (fire, stove or heater powered by electricity)