2. Noun. An event or a display where fireworks are set off. ¹
3. Noun. (context: figuratively) An boisterous or violent situation or event. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fireworks
1. firework [n] - See also: firework
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fireworks
Literary usage of Fireworks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"But it is further contended by plaintiffs that there could have been no forfeiture
of the policy on the ground that fireworks were kept, for the reason, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Negligence by Thomas Gaskell Shearman, Amasa Angell Redfield, Robert Gould Street (1913)
"Negligent use of fireworks. — The discharge of fireworks of every kind, in all
kinds of places, and with » total disregard of comfort, convenience, ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"fireworks AND fireworks. (Lurd £.'s remonstrance to Sir If. V. ... and glare,'
And war-rockets with damaging charges if Common fireworks go off and go out, ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"Notwithstanding this express provision forbidding it, fireworks were kept in
stock, and were In the building when the fire occurred. ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1856)
"[Which are specified by the editor] This fatal trickery, running through all his
dealings, gradually alienated (roam him fireworks IN THE GREEN PARK AT THE ..."
6. Quarterly of the National Fire Protection Association by National Fire Protection Association (1896)
"sale such fireworks as are not herein prohibited; or the sale of any kind of
fireworks provided the same are to be shipped directly out of state. ..."
7. Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to the Arts and by Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Henry Watts, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1865)
"As the writer of a recent leader in the Times says, " even fireworks are ...
The art of making fireworks was afterwards acquired by the English and Germans. ..."
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