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brazier
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.]
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).
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.
WordNet
n. large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times [syn: brasier]
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. Braziers have been recovered from many early archaeological sites like the Nimrud brazier, recently excavated by the Iraqi National Museum, which dates back to at least 824 BCE.
The Ancient Egyptian Brazier hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. Q7 for the cooking brazier. It is shown from the Old Kingdom in the style of a vertical burning flame upon four feet, but the hieroglyph has the flame hiding the fourth foot. Another Gardiner unlisted form has the four feet, with no flame, and in a plan view.
Brazier is an occupational surname of French origin, meaning "a worker in brass". An alternative spelling is Brasier. The surname may refer to:
- Alan Brazier (cricketer) (1924–1999), English cricketer
- Arthur M. Brazier (1921–2010), American bishop
- Brendan Brazier (born 1975), Canadian athlete
- Brook Brasier (1879–1940), Irish politician
- Caroline Brazier (born 1971), Australian actress
- Colin Brazier (footballer) (born 1957), British football player
- Colin Brazier (born 1968), British journalist
- Donavan Brazier (born 1997), American runner
- Eugénie Brazier (1895–1977), French chef
- Graham Brazier (1952–2015), New Zealand musician
- Harold Brazier (born 1955), American boxer
- Jeff Brazier (born 1979), British television presenter
- John Brazier (1842–1930), Australian zoologist
- Julian Brazier (born 1953), British politician
- Kelly Brazier (born 1989), New Zealand rugby player
- Margaret Brazier (born 1950), British legal scholar
- Martin Brasier (1947–2014), British biologist
- Mary Brazier (1904–1995), American neuroscientist
- Matt Brazier (born 1976), British football player
- Nicolas Brazier (1783–1838), French writer
- Robert Boyd Brazier (1916–1942), American sailor
- Robert H. B. Brazier (died 1837), British surveyor
- Rodney Brazier (born 1946), British lawyer
- Will Brazier (born 1983), American rugby player
- William Brazier (1755–1829), British cricketer
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.