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The light of a fire (especially in a fireplace)
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firelight
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The light of a fire, such as from a campfire or fireplace.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
firelight \firelight\ n. the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace); as, lovers sitting together in the firelight.
Wikipedia
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Firelight is a 1997 period romance film written and directed by William Nicholson and starring Sophie Marceau and Stephen Dillane . Written by William Nicholson, the film is about a woman who agrees to bear the child of an anonymous English landowner in ...
WordNet
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n. the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also fire-light , "light emitted by an open fire," Old English fyrleoht ; see fire (n.) + light (n.).
Usage examples of firelight.
Firelight shone on the dull white bone, revealing the jagged crown where the braincase had been sawed away.
Only when men came into the firelight, towards the breaches, did the muzzles spout flame and the grapeshot crease the ditch floor.
Its dipping, crescent browpiece gleamed, flashing in the darting firelight.
Shouts and cries echoed through the darkness, and shadowy clots of revelers filed along the unbounded edges of their firelight.
The animals strained against the leashed collars, trying to creep forward, their eyes blazing, saliva loose and dripping from their jaws, the wet fangs shining in the firelight.
She studied him against the brightening firelight, crushingly aware of how quickly she had come to desire him.
So musing, presently the firelight died down, and bulky forms of hide-wrapped woodmen sleeping on the floor slowly disappeared in obscurity like ranges of mountains disappearing in the darkness of night.
I ran my hands up into the warm fiery mass as it unraveled from its plait, and the loosened waves of it spilled cinnamon and gold and silver in the firelight as I rubbed the pads of my fingers gently into his scalp.
It was a single large firelit room, almost empty of furniture and so dusty and hung with cobwebs that no one could have lived there for a long long time.
The rafters crept off through the shadows, pushing along toward the firelit window to have a look within.
Her brother turned his head away abruptly and scratched with a stick in the firelit dust.
The cloying darkness sometimes seemed inside her head and sometimes outside in the firelit room.
She sprang off the two steps of the dais into the firelit body of the hall.
It was not a question, and the firelit air was suddenly tight with all those unseen things, with the awareness of all that had passed between them in the realm that surrounded this one.
So he came in the wet dusk past Roke Knoll, and saw bright werelights playing in the rain over the roofs of the Great House, and he entered there and was welcomed by his Masters and companions in the firelit hall.