"tourbillion" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "See tourbillon.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tourbillions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tourbillion (plural tourbillions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1700, Mrs. Behn (translator), Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, The Theory Or System of Several New Inhabited Worlds Lately Discover'd",
          "text": "This azure Vault has a greater Depth and a vaster Extent , and that ' tis divided into a thousand and a thousand different Tourbillions or Whirlings",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1939, Jan Struther, “Guy Fawkes' Day”, in Mrs. Miniver",
          "text": "Clem knew ... the sober, familiar names usually produced the most interesting results. He laid out a certain amount on Roman Candles, Catherine-wheels, and Tourbillions, but for the most part he rightly concentrated on rockets.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An ornamental firework that turns round in the air so as to form a scroll of fire."
      ],
      "id": "en-tourbillion-en-noun-oo7-OFRy",
      "links": [
        [
          "ornamental",
          "ornamental"
        ],
        [
          "firework",
          "firework"
        ],
        [
          "scroll",
          "scroll"
        ],
        [
          "fire",
          "fire"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) An ornamental firework that turns round in the air so as to form a scroll of fire."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tourbillion"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "See tourbillon.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tourbillions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tourbillion (plural tourbillions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1700, Mrs. Behn (translator), Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, The Theory Or System of Several New Inhabited Worlds Lately Discover'd",
          "text": "This azure Vault has a greater Depth and a vaster Extent , and that ' tis divided into a thousand and a thousand different Tourbillions or Whirlings",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1939, Jan Struther, “Guy Fawkes' Day”, in Mrs. Miniver",
          "text": "Clem knew ... the sober, familiar names usually produced the most interesting results. He laid out a certain amount on Roman Candles, Catherine-wheels, and Tourbillions, but for the most part he rightly concentrated on rockets.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An ornamental firework that turns round in the air so as to form a scroll of fire."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ornamental",
          "ornamental"
        ],
        [
          "firework",
          "firework"
        ],
        [
          "scroll",
          "scroll"
        ],
        [
          "fire",
          "fire"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) An ornamental firework that turns round in the air so as to form a scroll of fire."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tourbillion"
}