ember

plural embers

1. A piece of coal or wood glowing by heat; a hot coal.
2. Smoldering ash.

1. not comparablelifestyleMaking a circuit of the year or the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year, as certain religious days set apart for fasting and prayer.

   ember days

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   ember fasts

   ember weeks

1. rareA unisex given name.

   This conversation took place at an advertising agency between an American copywriter named Ember (E), and one of his Japanese co-workers named Nakada (N).

   1993, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication

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   In this section, a straightforward and attractive character named Ember, an academic colleague of Krug, is trying to distract his friend from brooding upon the death of his wife.

   2014, Samuel Schuman, Nabokov's Shakespeare, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 48

   Brigdha had hoped that she would have a chance to speak with this red headed woman, named Ember, who now approached. She seemed to also be from somewhere else. Maybe you will help me, Ember? she wondered.

   2016, Tom Watson, Ember of a New World, →ISBN, page 258

   A serene smile curved her mouth, and soft strands of her dark hair swayed around her, softening the sharp edges that had once been on her face. “She's named Ember because that's what she is,” Ashrynn said, “she's a single burning ember ...”

   2016, Cressa Rose, Book 3: Night Ashes (a Night City Novel), →ISBN