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单词 piece of firework
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piece of firework
a. A pictorial or ornamental design formed by igniting devices filled with gunpowder and other combustible chemicals. Also as a mass noun, esp. in piece of firework. Obsolete.
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a1577 G. Gascoigne Princelie Pleasures Kenelworth sig. A.iijv, in Whole Wks. (1587) At which time there wer fire-works shewed vpon the water, the which were both strange and wel executed.
1590 E. Webbe Rare & Wonderfull Things (new ed.) sig. C3 I my selfe was then constrayned to make a cunning peece of fire woorke framed in forme like to the Arke of Noye.
1599 R. Hakluyt Voyages II. i. 204 They make great feasting and triumph within the Carouan, with castles and other infinite deuises of fireworke.
1644 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 137 The night ended with fire-works..The first appeared to be a mighty rock.
1675 London Gaz. No. 1027/4 A rare Fire-work was erected on the little Isle..representing the Alliance of the Confederates.
1750 H. Brooke New Coll. Fairy Tales II. xii. 204 Commode drew from under the Seat of the Chariot a great Quantity of Squibs and Crackers which she had brought, perhaps with Design to make a little Piece of Firework.
1850 Water-cure Jrnl. Mar. 65/2 Some years since I saw at a pyrotechnic exhibition a complicated piece of firework.
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