firelight

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The light of a fire, such as from a campfire or fireplace.

   He sat on by the cheerful firelight thrown from a bundle of green ash-sticks laid across the dogs; the sticks snapped pleasantly, and hissed out bubbles of sap from their ends.

2. 2
   noun

   the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace)

From Middle English fire liȝt, fyre lyghte, from Old English fȳrlēoht, equivalent to fire + light.

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