brazier
See also: Brazier
English
Brazier with grill and pot rest
Alternative forms
- brasier
Pronunciation
- enPR: brāʹ-zhər, IPA(key): /ˈbɹeɪʒəɹ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɹeɪ.ʒə(ɹ)/, /ˈbɹeɪ.zjə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈbɹeɪ.ʒɚ/
- Rhymes: -eɪʒə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From Middle English brasier, from brasen (“to make out of bronze or brass”), from Old English brasian, bræsian (“to cover with brass”), equivalent to brass + -ier.
Noun
brazier (plural braziers)
- A worker in brass.
Etymology 2
From French brasier (“pan of hot coals”), from Middle French braisier, from Old French brasier, from brese (“embers, hot coals”), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brasō. See braise.
Noun
brazier (plural braziers)
- An upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal for a source of light or heat.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
- One of them came forward, and, producing a lamp, lit it from his brazier (for the Amahagger when on a journey nearly always carried with them a little lighted brazier, from which to provide fire).
- March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine, page 264-5:
- At almost any time, while the boats weigh anchor, a small party can be seen in the stern, clustering about a charcoal brazier- a woman busy dishing out bowls of soup and macaroni, and men in palm-leaf hats, their bronzed bodies stripped to the waist, hurriedly scooping up steaming threads with the aid of long wooden chop-sticks.
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Translations
an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal
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a worker in brass
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See also
- cresset
Anagrams
- bizarre