ember
/ˈɛm.bɚ/ noun C1- A piece of coal or wood glowing by heat; a hot coal.
- Smoldering ash.
Plural embers
From the library
Now we behold the embers flee
Blinking embers, tell me true
It was pleasantly warm and dimly lighted by the embers of a fire in the grate.
I took a wax-candle in one hand, and with the other groped about for a piece of paper (my match-box being empty), with which I proposed to get a light from the small flame still playing on the embers.
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