firmament-wards

English

Adverb

firmament-wards (not comparable)

In the direction of the sky or the heavens.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXI, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 211:
  Then she flew firmament-wards to circle it, as was her custom, and met an Ifrit on the wing who saluted her and she said to him, "Whence comest thou?"

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