flaring
noun C2- The act of something that flares.
- The deliberate open-air burning of natural gas that is generated as a by-product of various petrochemical processes, especially oil extraction; gas flaring.
Plural flarings
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A LAMP, soaked with too much oil and flaring brightly, boasted that it gave more light than the sun.
A vulgar flaring paper adorned the walls, but it was blotched in places with mildew, and here and there great strips had become detached and hung down, exposing the yellow plaster beneath.
With rows of flaring torches to light it up, and the colour and rude hilarity of an old-time banquet, it might have softened; but now, when two black-clothed gentlemen sat in the little circle of light thrown by a shaded lamp, one’s voice became hushed and one’s spirit subdued.
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