Definitions

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  • noun An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes.

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  • noun An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes.

Etymologies

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French calorifère, from Latin calor heat + ferre to bear.

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Examples

  • Well, what I have just described to you is nothing more nor less than a calorifere.

    Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

  • A calorifere to produce the changes of temperature, and a cylinder to generate the heat, are neither inconvenient nor heavy.

    Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

  • "It's that beast of a calorifere," the Swede said, nodding at the hideous black cylinder that stood near them,

    A Daughter of To-Day Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • By dint of much persistence she had succeeded in getting the leaky roof repaired, and in place of the smoky stove that had long been her despair she had one night procured a fine calorifere by the simple process of stealing it.

    All Roads Lead to Calvary 1893

  • Sabine could not at first imagine what this new fancy signified, she, whose house possessed a calorifere which heated the staircases, antechambers, and passages.

    Beatrix 1839

  • Sabine could not at first imagine what this new fancy signified, she, whose house possessed a calorifere which heated the staircases, antechambers, and passages.

    Beatrix Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Spre exemplu, la 15 grade Celsius, cei din Hawaii dau drumul la calorifere.

    Mediafax 2010

  • Spre exemplu, la 15 grade Celsius, cei din Hawaii dau drumul la calorifere.

    Mediafax 2010

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