Meaning

1 senses
  1. A geometric design caused by the vortices of an aircraft swirling the smoke from its anti-missile flares.

Origin

From the similarity to angels' wings.

From the similarity to angels' wings.

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Forms

plural: flare angels
Singularflare angel
Pluralflare angels

regular

See also

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