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fire-new en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (dated, not-comparable) Fresh from the forge; brand-new.
    • Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce current. c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
    • There are men that roll through life like a fire-new red ball going across Mr. Lord's cricket ground on a sunshiny day […] 1853, Charles Reade, Peg Woffington: