fire balloon
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fire balloon
First recorded in 1815–25
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Winds gusting through a vast tinderbox of undergrowth made the fire balloon in size and merge with a smaller blaze.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
From the fire balloon invented by the Montgolfier Brothers, in 1782, to the superior hydrogen balloon of M.M.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 by Various
This took place at Edinburgh in a fire balloon.
From The Mastery of the Air by William J. Claxton
But now I had found the happiness that Shelley found when he tied a pamphlet to a fire balloon.
From The Trembling of the Veil by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Blaze up like a fire balloon just because I said that, will you?
From The Third Violet by Stephen Crane
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