balefire

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle English bale-fyre, from Old English bǣlfȳr (“balefire, funeral or sacrificial fire”); equivalent to bale (“funeral pyre”) + fire.

A single window in the wing gleamed like a balefire in the rays of the setting sun. — Shapes that Haunt the Dusk, Unknown
It was his own soul going forth to experience, unfolding itself sin by sin, spreading abroad the balefire of its burning stars and folding back upon itself, fading slowly, quenching its own lights and fires. — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

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