brazier

• brasier

• enPR: brāʹ-zhər, IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪʒəɹ/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪ.ʒə(ɹ)/, /ˈbɹeɪ.zjə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪ.ʒɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪʒə(ɹ)

From Middle English brasier, from brasen (“to make out of bronze or brass”), from Old English brasian, bræsian (“to cover with brass”), equivalent to brass +‎ -ier.

brazier (plural braziers)

1. A worker in brass.

From French brasier (“pan of hot coals”), from Middle French braisier, from Old French brasier, from brese (“embers, hot coals”), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brasō. See braise.

brazier (plural braziers)

1. An upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal for a source of light or heat.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     One of them came forward, and, producing a lamp, lit it from his brazier (for the Amahagger when on a journey nearly always carried with them a little lighted brazier, from which to provide fire).

   • March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine‎, pages 264–5:

     At almost any time, while the boats weigh anchor, a small party can be seen in the stern, clustering about a charcoal brazier- a woman busy dishing out bowls of soup and macaroni, and men in palm-leaf hats, their bronzed bodies stripped to the waist, hurriedly scooping up steaming threads with the aid of long wooden chop-sticks.

• cresset, fire basket

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