pyrotechny
pyrotechny
English
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Definition
The manufacture and use of fireworks.
Etymology
From pyro- + tech + -y.
Example Sentences
- "[Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not as if one should have, through majestic powers of science, the comets given into his hand, or the planets and their moons, and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night, and advertise in all towns, “very superior pyrotechny this evening!”"
- "‘[…] I came to the conclusion that this demonstration of our skill in the art of pyrotechny was valuable, if only because it impressed upon them ... the superiority of the British.... […]’"
- "But if all rhetoric is a mode of pyrotechny, and all pyrotechnics are by necessity fugacious, yet even in these frail pomps there are many degrees of frailty."
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