pyrotechny

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There is no pyrotechny in the writing — just compassion and shrewd insight.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2014

Not until the 19th century did pyrotechny make big advances.

From Time Magazine Archive

In those days, long before and after July 4 fireworkmen were billed like vaudeville teams about the country, the wonders of pyrotechny were displayed to smalltown folk in parks and pastures.

From Time Magazine Archive

But if all rhetoric is a mode of pyrotechny, and all pyrotechnics are by necessity fugacious, yet even in these frail pomps, there are many degrees of frailty.

From Biographical Essays by De Quincey, Thomas

Pyrotech′nist, a maker of fireworks: one skilled in pyrotechny.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various