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friars lantern

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ig⋅nis fat⋅u⋅us

  [ig-nis fach-oo-uhs]
–noun, plural ig⋅nes fat⋅u⋅i  [ig-neez fach-oo-ahy] .
1. Also called friar's lantern, will-o'-the-wisp. a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter.
2. something deluding or misleading.
Origin:
1555–65; < ML: lit., foolish fire
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ignis fatuus 
"will o' the wisp, jack-a-lantern," 1563, from M.L., lit. "foolish fire." It seems once to have been more common than presently.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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