firelight

noun

Etymology: From Middle English fire liȝt, fyre lyghte, from Old English fȳrlēoht, equivalent to fire + light.

1. The light of a fire, such as from a campfire or fireplace.

   “He sat on by the cheerful firelight thrown from a bundle of green ash-sticks laid across the dogs; the sticks snapped pleasantly, and hissed out bubbles of sap from their ends.”

   “He glanced continually at the diamond-panes of the casement, gleaming dimly in the firelight, and cocked his ear toward the door, as if half expecting to hear the pad of furtive feet in the corridor without.”