briquetage

English

Briquetage, iron slag & sherds in Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, England

Etymology

From French briquetage (“brickwork”) (In French archaeology the term is also used in this extended, specialist sense).

Noun

briquetage (uncountable)

1. (archaeology) burnt-clay remains associated with historical salt production.
2. (archaeology, more generally) any crudely-made objects fashioned of burnt clay.

Coordinate terms

• red hill
• shard

Further reading

• briquetage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Red hill (salt making) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Briquetage de la Seille on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

French

Noun

briquetage m (plural briquetages)

1. brickwork
2. a pattern of lines on plaster, etc., to imitate brickwork
3. briquetage

Further reading

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