Primus

See also: primus and prímus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹaɪməs/

Noun

Primus (plural Primuses)

1. A Primus stove
   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 53:

     Varya walked past slowly, idly peeping into each of them. There was a vendor of Turkish delight and halvah. A haberdasher's stall. A cobbler. A whitesmith. A repairer of Primuses and oil stoves.

Anagrams

• purism