"Kentish fire" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "In reference to meetings held in Kent that opposed the Catholic Emancipation Bill.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1916, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The entry of the professor was signalled by a few rounds of Kentish fire from the heavy boots of those students who sat on the highest tier of the gloomy theatre under the grey cobwebbed windows.",
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        "An expression of emotion from an audience, either of approbation or derision; cheers; jeering."
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          "cheers",
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          "jeering",
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  "etymology_text": "In reference to meetings held in Kent that opposed the Catholic Emancipation Bill.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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