Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brazier for holding burning charcoal for heating purposes.
- noun In Mexico, a hearth or fireplace.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word brasero.
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.
-
They centered around the tiled brasero, or hearth, where charcoal-burning stoves were set into long or horseshoe-shaped counters.
-
They centered around the tiled brasero, or hearth, where charcoal-burning stoves were set into long or horseshoe-shaped counters.
-
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
vendingmachine commented on the word brasero
a place where criminals and heretics are burned.
March 22, 2017