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Catherine wheel   /kˈæθərən wil/   Listen
noun
Catherine wheel  n.  
1.
(Geoth.Arth.) Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window.
2.
(Pyrotechny) A revolving piece of fireworks resembling in form the window of the same name. (Written also Catharine wheel)





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"Catherine wheel" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the Arabs say the shooting stars, meteorites, are starry stones which the angels fling at the poaching demons whom they catch sight of prowling too near the palisades of heaven. I must say I like Arab angels. My heaven would coruscate like a catherine wheel, with white-hot star-stones. Away, you dog, you prowling cur.—Got him under the left ear-hole, Gabriel—! See him, see him, Michael? That hopeful blue devil! Land him one! Biff on your ...
— Fantasia of the Unconscious • D. H. Lawrence


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