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firelight

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈfaɪə.laɪt/Part of speech nounSorted efghiilrtStarts with FEnds with T0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace)

Word origin

From Middle English fire liȝt, fyre lyghte, from Old English fȳrlēoht, equivalent to fire + light.

Used in a sentence

  • He sat on by the cheerful firelight thrown from a bundle of green ash-sticks laid across the dogs; the sticks snapped pleasantly, and hissed out bubbles of sap from their ends.
  • He glanced continually at the diamond-panes of the casement, gleaming dimly in the firelight, and cocked his ear toward the door, as if half expecting to hear the pad of furtive feet in the corridor without.
  • Dane was startled out of the contemplation of his misery to see the medic on his knees before their row of canteens, the vial of water purifier held to the firelight for a closer inspection.

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