Nightfire

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A fire that is lit outdoors at night.

    "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."

  2. 2
    Will o' the wisp.

Synonyms

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will o' the wisp

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"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."

Etymology

From night + fire.

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