briquet

See also: Briquet

English

Alternative forms

• briquette

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French briquette, diminutive of brique (“brick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹɪˈkɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

briquet (plural briquets)

1. A small brick, typically made of charcoal and used for fuel.
   • 1911, F. H. King, Farmers of Forty Centuries

     Another pinch of charcoal was added and the process repeated until the mold was filled, when the briquet was forced out.

2. A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving.
3. A moulded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material.
4. (dated) A cigarette lighter.
   • 1919 October, John Galsworthy, chapter I, in Saint’s Progress, London: William Heinemann, published December 1919, →OCLC, part II, 3 §, page 115:

     Out of the corner of his eye he caught the flash of a man's "briquet" lighting a cigarette.

Translations

small brick

• Danish: briket (da) c
• Dutch: briket (nl)
• Finnish: briketti (fi)
• French: briquette (fr) f
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• German: Brikett (de) n
• Hungarian: brikett (hu)
• Russian: брике́т (ru) m (brikét)

cigarette lighter

• French: briquet (fr) m
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French

Etymology

Specialised sense of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French briquet (“piece, morsel”), from brique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁi.kɛ/

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Noun

briquet m (plural briquets)

1. (obsolete) frizzen
2. (cigarette) lighter
3. (zoology) beagle
4. (heraldry) firesteel

Further reading

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

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Spanish

Noun

briquet m (plural briquetes)

1. (Colombia) lighter

Synonyms

• encendedor m
• fosforera f (Cuba)
• lighter m (Panama, Puerto Rico)
• mechero m (Spain)
• yesquero m (Venezuela)