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noun (feux de joie)
  1. (obsolete) A bonfire.
  2. A celebratory salute made by firing guns into the air.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, "Watches of the Night", Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 60:
    • :while Platte was rolling over and over on the turf, like a shot rabbit, the watch and guard flew from his waistcoat"as an Infantry Major's sword hops out of the scabbard when they are firing a feu-de-joie
Etymology: From , literally "fire of joy".


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