pyromachy
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pyromachy (uncountable)
- The use of fire in combat.
- 1950, Paul Frischauer, So great a queen: the story of Esther, Queen of Persia, page 313:
- The general-in-chief of pyromachy was holding in readiness a detail outfitted with supplies of tinder and torches for emergency incendiary action.