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語源

From scare +‎ fire. In some senses, alteration of scathefire.

名詞

scarefire (plural scarefires)

1. (obsolete) A fire causing alarm, i.e. a house-burning; conflagration; scathefire.
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:

     Scarefire of Purgatory

参照

• “scarefire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.