dragonfire

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English

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Etymology

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From dragon +‎ fire.

Noun

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dragonfire (uncountable)

  1. Fire produced by a dragon.
    • 1982, Piers Anthony, Night Mare, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, page 100:
      “Spurs!” Imbri sent in a dream like a blast of dragonfire. “Hotter than the breath of Baal, your thought! But I don’t use the spurs, once my steed is tame,” he argued.
    • 1982, Mike Scott Rohan, Run to the Stars, Arrow Books, →ISBN, page 14:
      With a roar of dragonfire something enormous blazed by overhead, as if the Moon itself were dropping onto us.
    • 2017, Julie Kagawa, Legion, HQ, →ISBN, page 210:
      At the same time, it made me desperate to get to Ember. To get us all out of here and find someplace safe before the world exploded in a hellstorm of dragonfire.

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