“pyrotechnist”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

pyrotechnist

释义

pyrotechnist|paɪərəʊˈtɛknɪst|
[f. next + -ist: cf. botanist, etc.]
One employed or skilled in pyrotechny; a maker or displayer of fireworks.
a1791Steevens in Boswell Johnson (1888) IV. 325 The authour of The Rambler..may be considered, on this occasion, as the ringleader of a successful riot, though not as a skilful pyrotechnist.1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxi. IV. 613 The whole skill of the pyrotechnists..was employed to produce a display of fireworks which might vie with any that had been seen in the gardens of Versailles.1858T. R. Jones Aquarian Nat. 47 The azure, gold, and silver rain of the pyrotechnist.
b. fig. (Cf. pyrotechnic A. 2 b.)
1826Scott Diary 2 Mar., The bankers will be persuaded that it is a squib which may burn their own fingers, and will curse the poor pyrotechnist that compounded it.1879G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie III. x. 164 To hear the new preacher, the pyrotechnist of human logic and eloquence.

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