Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An open pan for burning charcoal, used especially for heating rooms in southern and eastern countries, such as Italy, China, Japan, etc.
- noun An artificer who works in brass.
- noun A name used on the northern coast of Ireland for the common sea-bream, pagellus centrodontus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
brasier .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal for a source of light or
heat . - noun A worker in brass.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times
Etymologies
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Examples
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And without the game, thousands of youths would still be holding on to the misconception that a brazier is a support undergarment.
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( "And the Nebula goes to ...":: rotates brand in brazier of hot coals::) It would certainly make losing the award a lot more palatable.
Nebula Weekend, days 2-3 eugie 2010
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( "And the Nebula goes to ...":: rotates brand in brazier of hot coals::) It would certainly make losing the award a lot more palatable.
Nebula Weekend, days 2-3 eugie 2010
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Mr Abney was sprinkling some incense on the brazier from a round silver box as Stephen passed, but did not seem to notice his step.
Lost Hearts by M. R. James | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004
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The brazier was a beautiful thing, a credit to the smith who made it; on three braced legs like saplings, the fire-basket a trellis of vine-leaves.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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The brazier was a beautiful thing, a credit to the smith who made it; on three braced legs like saplings, the fire-basket a trellis of vine-leaves.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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It is burned in a metal or earthen dish called a brazier, and a double handful may last a family a whole day.
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Mixed with the charcoal in the brazier are a few coals of soft white pine, which when burnt look exactly like charcoal.
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Mixed with the charcoal in the brazier are a few coals of soft white pine, which when burnt look exactly like charcoal.
The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé Harry Houdini 1900
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She was then dining alone, and her solitary dinner had been brought in from somewhere, over a kind of brazier with a fire in it, and she had no company or prospect of company, that I could see, but the old man who had brought it.
Little Dorrit 2007
asativum commented on the word brazier
"'... as for making you my wife -- that I will not. How would it go with me? Your lovers have found you like a brazier which smoulders in the cold, a backdoor which keeps out neither squall of wind nor storm, a castle which crushes the garrison, pitch that blackens the bearer, a water-skin that chafes the carrier, a stone which falls from the parapet, a battering-ram turned back from the enemy, a sandal that trips the wearer. Which of your lovers did you ever love for ever? ... '"
-- Gilgamesh to Ishtar, from The Epic of Gilgamesh
June 17, 2008
Dan337 commented on the word brazier
January 1, 2011