Congreve match

== English == === Etymology === From German Congreve, after William Congreve, British rocket pioneer and administrator of the Imperial Continental Gas Association during the 1820s. === Noun === Congreve match (plural Congreve matches) (chiefly historical) Synonym of phosphorus match, a strike-anywhere friction match. === References === “Congreve, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. Edward Bidwell, Presidential Address, Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Vol. X, Part V (1920), p. 407.