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View synonyms for balefire

balefire

[ beyl-fahyuhr ]

noun

  1. a large fire in the open air; bonfire.
  2. a signal fire; beacon.
  3. the fire of a funeral pile.


balefire

/ ˈbeɪlˌfaɪə /

noun

  1. a bonfire
  2. a beacon fire
  3. a funeral pyre
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of balefire1

1250–1300; Middle English bal ( e ) fir, equivalent to bale (< Old Norse bāl funeral pyre) + fire fire; replacing Old English bǣlfȳr
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Word History and Origins

Origin of balefire1

C14 bale , from Old English bǣl pyre; related to Old Norse bāl flame, pyre, Sanskrit bhāla brightness
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Example Sentences

Nay, even such a birth hath Venus of her own, a second Paris, another balefire for Troy towers reborn.'

A single window in the wing gleamed like a balefire in the rays of the setting sun.

Balefire devoured, greediest spirit, those spared not by war out of either folk: their flower was gone.

This word was the last which the wise old man harbored in heart ere hot death-waves of balefire he chose.

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