nightfire

English

Etymology

night +‎ fire

Noun

nightfire (plural nightfires)

1. A fire that is lit outdoors at night.
   • 1979, John Brandi, Diary from a Journey to the Middle of the World, page 40:

     So I go on with my clowns & ponies, angels floating over peasants warming themselves by nightfires, devils, laborers, simple country girls, of donkey-bodied men & mystic bursts of rain over symbolic volcanoes.

   • 2000, George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, page 884:

     I mean to have them all garrisoned again within the year, and nightfires burning before their gates.

   • 2010, Alex Taylor, The Name of the Nearest River: Stories, →ISBN:

     Around the nightfires, I read Ezekiel and Leviticus and then spoke mysteriously about the quarry we chased, lengthening all I knew of the Harp gang into flatulent legend.

2. Will o' the wisp.

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