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fen fire

fen fire noun: will o' the wisp.

Noun

fen fire (plural fen fires)

  1. will o' the wisp
    • Also we were above the level of the marsh mist, which lay stretched beneath us like the dim smoke-pall over a city, lit up here and there by the wandering globes of fen fire.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Forms of fen fire

pluralfen fires

Questions about fen fire

What does fen fire mean?
Fen fire means will o' the wisp.
What part of speech is fen fire?
Fen fire is a noun.
What is the plural of fen fire?
The plural of fen fire is fen fires.

Words near fen fire in the dictionary

  1. femyles
  2. fen
  3. fen cricket
  4. fen crickets
  5. Fen Drayton
  6. fen fire
  7. fen fires
  8. fen goose
  9. fen island
  10. fen islands
  11. fen nettle

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