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pyrotechny

NOUN
fireworks display
Synonyms


NOUN
pyrotechnics
Synonyms
STRONG


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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

That was "back in the Sixties," when his lapses were as far apart as they were unrivalled in consumption, span, and pyrotechny.

From Ancestors A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Of the ombres Chinoises they may, perhaps, claim the invention, and in pyrotechny their ingenuity may be reckoned much superior to any thing which has hitherto been exhibited in that art in Europe.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Sir John Barrow




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