fire balloon

American  

noun

1. a montgolfier.

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Etymology

Origin of fire balloon

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

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

Then Nan had a big fire balloon that she sent up, and they watched it until it was out of sight, away over the pond and clear out of Meadow Brook.

From The Bobbsey Twins in the Country by Hope, Laura Lee

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

Blaze up like a fire balloon just because I said that, will you?

From The Third Violet by Crane, Stephen

Instantly it burst into a flare of crimson fire, hanging aloft as though it were a fire balloon, and lighting up road and creek and bushes and fields with a brilliant strontium glare.

From The Dark Star by Stevens, William Dodge