Definition of "pyrotechny" []

• See pyrotechnics. (noun)

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• "Is it not as if one should have, through majestic powers of science, the comets given into his hand, or the planets and their moons, and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night, and advertise in all towns, “Very superior pyrotechny this evening”?"
• "The efficiency of a given course of training is indicated by the power and endurance which it imparts, -- not by such pyrotechny as may be let off before an examining committee."
• "And strangest of all, at the final puff and bang of each remarkable piece of pyrotechny, the bells ring out just the same sudden clang which marks the agonizing moment of the"