red fire

noun

any of various combustible preparations, as one containing strontium nitrate, that burn with a vivid red light: used chiefly in pyrotechnic displays and in signaling.

red fire

any combustible material that burns with a bright red flame: used in flares and fireworks. The colour is usually produced by strontium salts

First recorded in 1810–20

“It was like the sun, lit up and made of red fire,” Taylor would remember.

That's a new song and a very nice one, thought Marmaduke, as he watched the Toyman whittling away by the red fire.

Away off the bed, over the bright rag carpet, and past the red fire, safely and swiftly they trotted.

Thousands of feet below, like little pinpricks of red fire, they saw the lights of Monte Carlo.

Through the shadows the little red fire seemed to be as desolate as the family.

In the ruined caldron where red fire and black smoke wildly mingled, blue water lies in repose.

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