pyrotechny
Example Sentences
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There is no pyrotechny in the writing — just compassion and shrewd insight.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2014
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
Not until the 19th century did pyrotechny make big advances.
From Time Magazine Archive
That was "back in the Sixties," when his lapses were as far apart as they were unrivalled in consumption, span, and pyrotechny.
From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
It is decomposed by heat, and is largely used in pyrotechny for the preparation of green fire.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
