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pyrotechny

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10 lettersPart of speech nounSorted cehnoprtyyStarts with PEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the craft of making fireworks

Word origin

From pyro- + tech + -y.

Used in a sentence

  • ‘[…] I came to the conclusion that this demonstration of our skill in the art of pyrotechny was valuable, if only because it impressed upon them ... the superiority of the British.... […]’
  • But if all rhetoric is a mode of pyrotechny, and all pyrotechnics are by necessity fugacious, yet even in these frail pomps there are many degrees of frailty.
  • Gunpowder and the compositions of pyrotechny are the means used, in modern warfare, to propel projectiles, explode mines, destroy ships and buildings, and furnish light and signals for the operations of an army at night.

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