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Meaning of fire-flies | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

She recalled the old hall, with its storied frescoesthe woods, where so many mornings had passed so happily awaythe little river, where they used to launch their light boats, made of the green rushes which grew beside; she recalled the blithe chirp of the cicala in the fragrant grassand the gleam of the fire-flies, glittering by twilight amid the boughs of the myrtle.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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