"matchflare" meaning in English

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        "3": "flare"
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      "expansion": "match + flare",
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  "etymology_text": "match + flare",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "matchflares",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1979, Irving Layton, Droppings from Heaven",
          "text": "I am a matchflare / you are another / Together / for an instant / we pierce the surrounding / dark",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Anthony Lawrence, In the Half Light",
          "text": "In the next matchflare I saw names carved into a dry section over my head: Vivian, David, Robert, Mel.",
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      ],
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        "The flaring of a lit match."
      ],
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        [
          "flaring",
          "flare"
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        [
          "lit",
          "lit"
        ],
        [
          "match",
          "match"
        ]
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  "word": "matchflare"
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "match",
        "3": "flare"
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      "expansion": "match + flare",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "match + flare",
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    {
      "form": "matchflares",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  ],
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          "ref": "1979, Irving Layton, Droppings from Heaven",
          "text": "I am a matchflare / you are another / Together / for an instant / we pierce the surrounding / dark",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Anthony Lawrence, In the Half Light",
          "text": "In the next matchflare I saw names carved into a dry section over my head: Vivian, David, Robert, Mel.",
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        }
      ],
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        "The flaring of a lit match."
      ],
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          "match",
          "match"
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