bonfirelike
adjEtymology From bonfire + -like.
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Resembling or characteristic of a bonfire.
- Changing firing practices — perhaps simply by placing the vessel facedown in the outdoor bonfirelike kiln — allowed the paint to fire black in a reduced atmosphere.2003, Harry J. Shafer, Mimbres archaeology at the NAN Ranch Ruin, page 38:
- He could see the men in the bonfirelike glow of the second Kiowa, which had slammed to earth just beyond the inner perimeter fence.2006, Don Pendleton, Slaughter House, page 81: