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balefire

[ beyl-fahyuhr ]

noun

  1. a large fire in the open air; bonfire.
  2. a signal fire; beacon.
  3. the fire of a funeral pile.


balefire

/ 藞产别瑟濒藢蹿补瑟蓹 /

noun

  1. a bonfire
  2. a beacon fire
  3. a funeral pyre
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of balefire1

1250鈥1300; Middle English bal ( e ) fir, equivalent to bale (< Old Norse 产腻濒 funeral pyre) + fire fire; replacing Old English 产牵濒蹿测虅谤
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of balefire1

C14 bale , from Old English 产牵濒 pyre; related to Old Norse 产腻濒 flame, pyre, Sanskrit 产丑腻濒补 brightness
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Sweet Teviot! on thy silver tide The glaring balefires blaze no more.

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A single window in the wing gleamed like a balefire in the rays of the setting sun.

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Nay, even such a birth hath Venus of her own, a second Paris, another balefire for Troy towers reborn.'

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Up to the window the company crowded, and they could see the balefire blazing hotly against the cool light of the moon and the widely sprinkled stars.

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Like a balefire should the flame go up that says the king is dead.

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