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n. a flare which deploys a small parachute to slow down its descent.
Usage examples of "parachute flare".
The attacking plane climbed upward a few hundred feet and those aboard tossed out a parachute flare.
The parachute flare dropped gently, spiralling slowly down towards the oil, a white hole in the sky.
A moment later a parachute flare burst in light over the south end of Henderson Field.
Another parachute flare burst, and she threw herself down and crawled as machine-gun bullets whipcracked through the air where she had been.
The drum of the machine-carbine clicked empty just as the parachute flare went off overhead.
Doc searched in the cockpit compartments, and found a parachute flare.
Doc Savage chucked a parachute flare overside, then beat the light to the water, and landed.
A Democrat parachute flare drifted down through the overcast to illuminate the encampment.
Five minutes more and they saw a parachute flare blossom to the east and north.
They had one or two rehearsals of the photography, using a parachute flare, and then they were ready.
Someone somewhere fired off a parachute flare, but nothing developed from it.
I searched through their huge box of fireworks and found a parachute flare.
Every other moment a parachute flare came floating down, lighting up the countryside as brilliantly as day.