- a variation of pyrotechnics.
pyrotechny
Example Sentences
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There is no pyrotechny in the writing — just compassion and shrewd insight.
From Los Angeles Times ā Oct. 10, 2014
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
Not until the 19th century did pyrotechny make big advances.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its nitrate and chlorate are used in pyrotechny.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
But if all rhetoric is a mode of pyrotechny, and all pyrotechnics are by necessity fugacious, yet even in these frail pomps, there are many degrees of frailty.
From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey
