FIRELIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does firelight mean? 

• FIRELIGHT (noun)
  The noun FIRELIGHT has 1 sense:

1. the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace)

  Familiarity information: FIRELIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIRELIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The light of a fire (especially in a fireplace)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("firelight" is a kind of...):

light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)

 Context examples 

There is much hair, and it is brown, also sometimes it is like gold in the firelight, when she turn her head, so, and flashes come from it like golden fire.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But the room was gay with firelight.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It is simplicity itself, said he; my eyes tell me that on the inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jo's keen eyes were rather dim for a minute, and her thin face grew rosy in the firelight as she received her father's praise, feeling that she did deserve a portion of it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He pulled off his velvet cap of maintenance as he spoke, and displayed a pate which was as bald as an egg, and shone bravely in the firelight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I took the slip of bark to the firelight and we examined it together.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were stiff with their long and jolting drive from Whitcross, and chilled with the frosty night air; but their pleasant countenances expanded to the cheerful firelight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For some time the two men amused themselves with watching the movement of vague forms on the edge of the firelight.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And there was Silver, sitting back almost out of the firelight, but eating heartily, prompt to spring forward when anything was wanted, even joining quietly in our laughter—the same bland, polite, obsequious seaman of the voyage out.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Hitherto I had noticed the backs of his hands as they lay on his knees in the firelight, and they had seemed rather white and fine; but seeing them now close to me, I could not but notice that they were rather coarse—broad, with squat fingers.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)