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brazier
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A brazier is a container for hot coals, generally taking the form of an upright standing or hanging metal bowl or box. Used for burning solid fuel , usually charcoal , braziers principally provide heat, but may also be used for cooking and cultural rituals. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Braise \Braise\, Braize \Braize\, n. [So called from its iridescent colors.] (Zo["o]l.) A European marine fish ( Pagrus vulgaris ) allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species. [Also written brazier .]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal for a source of light or heat. 2 A worker in brass.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"metal container to hold burning coals," 1680s, from French brasier "pan of hot coals," from Old French brasier , from brese "embers" (see braise ).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A log fire crackled in the hearth and two capped braziers had been moved in just inside the door. ▪ Both the braziers near the door had not been disturbed. ▪ Selma arrived escorting two braziers, one to keep the coffee pots hot ...
Usage examples of brazier.
They were composed of some kind of aromatic gum in which benzoin seemed to predominate, and the fumes from the brazier filled the room with a blue mist.
With stammered apologies, the Lord Marshal sent for servants, who bustled about the tent, fetching food, drink, and a fresh brazier, emptying the tent of all the cots but the ones Lan and Pol were on, and a third one left for Tuck, who was already asleep on it.
I took off the brown mantle and my guild cloak, put my boots on a stool near the brazier, and stood beside him to dry my breeches and hose, asking if all those who came this way on monomachy stopped to refresh themselves with him.
Much of the temple was ruined, but the severe broad front was whole as well as a large hall behind it, a hall from which a thin remote chant could be heard: across this front stretched what for want of the proper term Stephen thought of as a portico, a narthex, and in this narthex a monk in a worn old saffron robe was sitting by a brazier.
Glancing over his shoulder for the file-leader, he cradled his fifteen-foot sarissa against his shoulder and tipped a cooled brick out of the folds of his cloak into the brazier.
Three sources of light remained: the red glow of the coals in the brazier, the green-glowing serpentiform circle of chalk, and the yellow eyes of the sorcerer, which blazed like the orbs of some nocturnal beast.
Wool clothing lined with silk, old-fashioned trunkhose, and ankle-high shoon of quilted doeskin were not enough to keep the chill from his old bones this dank, dismal day, so he had had a fire laid and lit on the hearth and also had fired a small brass brazier nearby on the tabletop over which to warm his hands from time to time.
Between them was a broad, shallow brazier, perched on three hand-high iron legs and filled with smouldering coals.
His Majesty the King of Cant sat on the throne in a coronal haloa scarlet backlight from braziers that leaped to life above and behind him as he motionlessly oversaw the transformation of his subjects.
The little room was hung all about with locust twigs, for their sweet scent, and was furnished only with a charcoal brazier and a charpai, which is a crude bed made of a wooden frame laced crisscross with ropes.
With brass chopsticks the smoker picked an ember from the brazier and relit his pipe.
Tossing the brazier down upon the torn cushions, she began pacing restlessly the length of the tent, muttering to herself and twining one long strand of black hair around her finger.
She pointed to a pile of cushions opposite her, keeping the charcoal brazier and the oil lamp between them.
Another employee fanned the coals in the porcelain brazier to warm the chill in the open-fronted shop.
He replaced the half-empty tobacco canister with a full one and fanned the coals in the brazier.