Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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n. (attributive of fire engine English)
Usage examples of "fire-engine".
Fire-engines are called to the sewage works where water is leaking in from the direction of Tilbury Fort.
Smiling to himself, Wexford climbed the steps to the front door, ducking his head to avoid catching it on a hanging basket full of Technicolor lobelias and fire-engine geraniums.
Caralie giggled at the mental image of Riley being chased around his studio by a maniacal, fire-engine wielding two-year-old.
Splashing from the deck up to your waist and gushing from the lee-scuppers like a fire-engine: if we had not battened down quite early you would have had a sopping bed - after the last downpour, the sky cleared .
I picked up some prettied gift ribbons in a fire-engine red and a get-well card with a sentimental verse.
A tarpaulin was draped half over the gleaming fire-engine red and chrome vintage car.