? Obs. [F. furole, earlier fuirole.] = CORPOSANT.
1656–81. Blount, Glossogr., Furole (Fr.), a little blaze of fire, appearing by night on the tops of Souldiers Launces or at Sea on Sayl-yards, where it whirles and leaps in a moment from one place to another.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Furole, a kind of little Meteor appearing amidst the Sails of a Ship, especially upon an approaching Storm, and by some call’d St. Hermes’s Fire.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk. Furole, the luminous appearance called the corpo santo.
