Etymology

correfoc

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Today it means: Any of several forms of parade-like celebrations in Catalonia involving pyrotechnics in the middle of a crowd. Full definition →

Catalan correfoc
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  1. Catalan · borrowed fromcorrefoc
  2. English todaycorrefoc

Borrowed from Catalan correfoc (literally “run [through] fire”).

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