| 单词 | fire king |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfire king fire king n. (a) fire personified as a king (now historical and rare); (b) a famous or celebrated fire-eater (fire-eater n. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] bruneOE fireOE eldc1200 glimmer1567 Vulcan1595 fire king1796 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer > types of knife-warper?c1225 saccularian1652 fire-eater1676 fire king1796 juggler1807 stone-eater1820 sword-swallower1826 fire-swallower1857 salamander1859 jadoo-wallah1890 knife-thrower1905 gully-gully man1930 1796 M. G. Lewis Monk III. viii. 15 ‘The Fire-King’ seems to be a man all formed of flames: he raises the meteors and wandering lights, which beguile travellers into ponds and marshes. 1829 T. Carlyle in Edinb. Rev. June 442 The Birmingham Fire-king has visited the fabulous East. 1861 Leisure Hour 17 Oct. 661 Thus aided [by the wind], the fire-king marched victoriously from east to west. 1876 Chambers's Jrnl. 11 Nov. 733 The fire-king devoured flaming brimstone by way of dessert. 1909 Forest & Stream 8 May 730/3 For days in September and October, during the reign of the fire king, the air was dense with smoke. 1962 M. Bergerie They Tasted Bayou Water vi. 90 The circus came to town... One of its attractions was the Fire King, who ate fire. 1992 M. H. Hazen & R. M. Hazen Keepers of Flame ii. 42 Other stunts performed by the ‘Fire King’ included..eating a torch ‘as if it were a salad.’ < as lemmas |
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