pyrotechny
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There is no pyrotechny in the writing — just compassion and shrewd insight.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
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
The efficiency of a given course of training is indicated by the power and endurance which it imparts,—not by such pyrotechny as may be let off before an examining committee.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various
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