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flame

/fleɪm/ adjective C2
  1. Of a brilliant reddish orange-gold colour, like that of a flame.
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The globe of the lamp appeared of a reddish hue, and the flame, brightening before it expired, threw out the last flickerings which in an inanimate object have been so often compared with the convulsions of a human creature in its final agonies.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1004 · C1
And it moves with the moving flame.
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 13 · C1
Every shade of colour they were—straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real vivid flame-coloured tint.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 9 · B2
The warning seemed not unnecessary, so uplifted and aerial was Anne’s expression and attitude as she sprang to her feet, her face irradiated with the flame of her spirit.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 141 · C1

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