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• t[=oo]r-bil'yun, n. anything with a spiral movement: a whirlwind: a kind of firework which gyrates in the air. [Fr., a whirlwind--L. turbo.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

• [Fr.] A firework which turns round in the air so as to look like a scroll of fire.

1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
By Henry Percy Smith