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FIRE WALKING

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• FIRE WALKING (noun)
The noun FIRE WALKING has 1 sense:

1. the ceremony of walking barefoot over hot stones or a bed of embers

Familiarity information: FIRE WALKING used as a noun is very rare.

• FIRE WALKING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The ceremony of walking barefoot over hot stones or a bed of embers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("fire walking" is a kind of...):

ceremonial; ceremonial occasion; ceremony; observance (a formal event performed on a special occasion)

"Better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
(English proverb)
"A danger foreseen is half-avoided."
(Native American proverb, Cheyenne)
"I see I forget. I hear I remember. I do I understand."
(Chinese proverb)
"By firelight, an old rag looks like sturdy hemp fabric."
(Corsican proverb)

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