Definition of Pyrotechnist:

part of speech: noun

One skilled in the application and management of fire, or in the manufacture of fireworks.

Usage examples:

• Some bamboo frames and sections of the same material led Placido to suspect that they were approaching the house of a pyrotechnist Jose Rizal in "The Reign of Greed Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo'".

• In the hands of any other pyrotechnist the squibs would have failed to light, the rockets would have refused to ascend, and the " nine- bangers" would have exploded but once or twice only, instead of nine times. Charles Farrar Browne in "The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 1".

• I therefore had them specially made for me by a pyrotechnist in London. G. A. Henty in "On the Pampas".

• The pyrotechnist was not free from it; he fussed about nervously; he tested everything again and again; he crawled under the car and out of it; he talked to officials; he inspected and re- inspected. E. V. Lucas in "A Wanderer in Florence".