fen fire

noun

will o' the wisp

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Meanings

nounfen fire (plural fen fires)

plural fen fires

  1. will o' the wisp

    Also we were above the level of the marsh mist, which lay stretched beneath us like the dim smoke-pall over a city, lit up here and there by the wandering globes of fen fire.

    1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
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