Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A brazier for holding burning charcoal for heating purposes.
  • noun In Mexico, a hearth or fireplace.

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Examples

  • While writing files on CDs using 'brasero', I am able to write and then access the files later.

    LinuxQuestions.org usnatarajan 2009

  • The summer of my 13th year I spent in a 'brasero' camp outside Salinas California picking strawberries and living in barracks.

    THE STEEL DEAL 2009

  • They centered around the tiled brasero, or hearth, where charcoal-burning stoves were set into long or horseshoe-shaped counters.

    Mexican cocinas: the colonial kitchen 2006

  • They centered around the tiled brasero, or hearth, where charcoal-burning stoves were set into long or horseshoe-shaped counters.

    Mexican cocinas: the colonial kitchen 2006

  • They centered around the tiled brasero, or hearth, where charcoal-burning stoves were set into long or horseshoe-shaped counters.

    Mexican cocinas: the colonial kitchen 2006

  • When was this - back at the original brasero program?

    Page 2 2005

  • The evening being cold, the inhabitants were crowded round a brasero in a chimney corner; and the hostess was a dry old woman, who looked like a mummy.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • The evening being cold, the inhabitants were crowded round a brasero in a chimney corner; and the hostess was a dry old woman, who looked like a mummy.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • Another with the bellows blew on the cinders, and the third, taking eggs from a basket, fried them on the _brasero_.

    The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919

  • I dismounted and walked to the huge fireplace at one end, where I saw three very old women seated like witches round a _brasero_, the great brass dish of burning cinders.

    The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919

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  • a place where criminals and heretics are burned.

    March 22, 2017