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

A narration, taken from the Sieur Joinville's History of St Louis, will place before our readers the contemporaneous description of the effects of the pyrotechny of the Arabs.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various

It is very possible that the influx of Chinese literature, which the result of the recent war with that people promises us, will lead to the discovery of Chinese treatises upon pyrotechny.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various