briquette
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French briquette, from brique (“brick”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]briquette (plural briquettes)
- 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 […]
- A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving.
- A molded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material.
Translations
[edit]small brick
Verb
[edit]briquette (third-person singular simple present briquettes, present participle briquetting, simple past and past participle briquetted)
- (transitive) To form (coal, etc.) into small bricks.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From brique (“brick”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]briquette f (plural briquettes)
- a small brick
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “briquette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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