pyrotechny
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There is no pyrotechny in the writing — just compassion and shrewd insight.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2014
Not until the 19th century did pyrotechny make big advances.
From Time Magazine Archive
In those days, long before and after July 4 fireworkmen were billed like vaudeville teams about the country, the wonders of pyrotechny were displayed to smalltown folk in parks and pastures.
From Time Magazine Archive
Viewing pyrotechny either as a science or an art, there is undoubtedly required in its prosecution much skill and practice.
From James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823 by Smith, Edgar Fahs
Rock′-fē′ver, intermittent fever; Rock′-fire, in pyrotechny, a composition of resin, sulphur, nitre, regulus of antimony, and turpentine, burning slowly; Rock′-fish, a name applied to various different varieties of wrasse, the striped bass, black goby, &c.;
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
