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Definition of Firetraps
1. firetrap [n] - See also: firetrap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firetraps
Literary usage of Firetraps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fireproof Magazine edited by William Clendenin, Peter Bonnett Wight (1905)
"Some of the buildings are nothing but old firetraps. ... The school for dependent
children at Sparta is nothing less than a nest of firetraps. ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"There was no money to replace firetraps with safe quarters, to provide modern
fire- fighting apparatus, but funds for useless army posts and navy yards were ..."
3. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1909)
"... at Ft. Wayne on this date I visited two schoolhouses with the local health
authorities. Both of them were found old, unsanitary and veritable firetraps. ..."
4. The World a Department Store: A Story of Life Under a Coöperative System by Bradford Peck (1900)
"Those old-time wooden shanties and cheaply constructed firetraps called hotels
had been swept away, giving place to a most magnificent parkway and boulevard ..."
5. The Battle with the Slum by Jacob August Riis (1902)
"The Superintendent of Buildings, after such a fire in March, 1896, said that
there were thousands of tenement firetraps in the city. ..."
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