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Definition of Pyrotechnist
1. n. One skilled in pyrotechny; one who manufactures fireworks.
Definition of Pyrotechnist
1. Noun. (dated) A pyrotechnician: person skilled in the manufacture or setting off of fireworks and firework displays. ¹
2. Noun. One who demonstrates a brilliant display, as of rhetoric or wit, or of virtuosity in the performing arts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pyrotechnist
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrotechnist
Literary usage of Pyrotechnist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum: The Testimony of an Independent Eye by Alexander Macdonald, Charles George Gordon (1887)
"... our right—How a shell startled them —Study for a pyrotechnist—Hard beds—What
the bullets seemed to say and the music they made—Unpleasant surroundings ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The value of such knowledge to the pyrotechnist is extremely great ; for he ...
But it is not often that the pyrotechnist depends wholly upon atmospheric ..."
3. The Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States of America from by United States (1862)
"That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint a
pyrotechnist for the service of the navy, at an annual salary of fifteen ..."
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