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star shell en · NOUN
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A type of ammunition shell which bursts to release a shower of stars for illuminating enemy positions etc.
To deprive the enemy of any advantage they might gain at night, he had star shells which could light up the entire countryside.
1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 351:Twilight deepened, and a flicker of star-shells wavered in the sky beyond Béthune.
1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 260:The sky flickered with the flash of guns, and an occasional star-shell flooded their path with light.
1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 5:
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