Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place or building specially combustible, in which life is greatly exposed to destruction by fire.
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Examples
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This opulent embassy is also a fire-trap as was recently reported.
Health insurance brings peace of mind: Those without live in terror 2008
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My starting to fancy she'd ended up in this fire-trap in the village, that my neighbor was her.
C.K. Williams' poetry of youth and age C.K. Williams 2001
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My starting to fancy she'd ended up in this fire-trap in the village, that my neighbor was her.
C.K. Williams' poetry of youth and age C.K. Williams 2001
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My starting to fancy she'd ended up in this fire-trap in the village, that my neighbor was her.
C.K. Williams' poetry of youth and age C.K. Williams 2001
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I will leave your fire-trap at once and cast anchor at the
Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope
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"Let's get out of this fire-trap," he said to the Captain.
Breaking Point James E. Gunn
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We know what these things are to-day: the iron teeth are our necessities, the thumbscrews the high-powered and swift machinery close to which we must work, and the rack is here in the fire-trap structures that will destroy us the minute they catch on fire.
The Nine-Tenths James Oppenheim 1907
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Radisson flung his snow-shoes and clothing as far as he could, and broke from the fire-trap.
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"A fine fire-trap for the fall drought," thought Wayland angrily.
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Is the store such a fire-trap? "asked the old lady quickly.
For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store Lurana W. Sheldon
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