electric fire

English

Noun

electric fire (plural electric fires)

  1. (UK, Ireland) A fire, stove or heater powered by electricity.
    • 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 69:
      [A] skinny blonde of about twenty sitting in an armchair by an electric fire reading a true romance magazine.
    • 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 67:
      An electric fire came next, followed by an umbrella and then a colander.
    • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 2:
      He was watching television when I got in. The curtains were drawn, and he had dug out an old half-broken electric fire; it was extremely hot.

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