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nightfire en · NOUN

Etymology

From night + fire.

Meanings

1. A fire that is lit outdoors at night.
   • I mean to have them all garrisoned again within the year, and nightfires burning before their gates. 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 884:
   • 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. 2010, Alex Taylor, The Name of the Nearest River: Stories, →ISBN:
   • 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. 1979, John Brandi, Diary from a Journey to the Middle of the World, page 40:
2. A will o' the wisp.

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