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单词 death-fire
释义 ˈdeath-fire
1. A luminous appearance supposed to be seen over a dead body, etc.: = dead-light 3.
1796Coleridge Ode Departing Year, Mighty armies of the dead, Dance like death-fires round her tomb.1818Shelley Rev. Islam xi. xii, From the choked well, whence a bright death-fire sprung.
2. A fire for burning a person to death.
1857T. Flanagan Hist. R.C. Church Eng. II. 81 A large wooden statue of the blessed Virgin was brought..to make the death-fire.
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