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fen fires

fen fires is the plural of fen fire.

Meaning of fen fire

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

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What is fen fires the plural of?
Fen fires is the plural of fen fire.

Words near fen fires in the dictionary

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

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