briquette

• briquet

From French briquette, from brique (“brick”) + -ette (“forming diminutives”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /bɹɪˈkɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

briquette (plural briquettes)

1. A small brick, typically made of charcoal and used for fuel.
   • 1913, United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 6358, page 2724:

     […] an eggette or briquette manufacturing contract, where, by the compression of tar with these fine particles of culm, there are made pieces of coal about the size of an egg […]

2. A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving.
3. A molded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material.

briquette (third-person singular simple present briquettes, present participle briquetting, simple past and past participle briquetted)

1. (transitive) To form (coal, etc.) into small bricks.

From brique (“brick”) +‎ -ette (diminutive suffix).

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briquette f (plural briquettes)

1. a small brick

• “briquette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.