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  • enPR: brāʹ-zhər, IPA(key): /ˈbɹeɪʒəɹ/
    • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɹeɪ.ʒə(ɹ)/, /ˈbɹeɪ.zjə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪʒə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

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    From Middle English brasiere, from brasen (to cover with brass), from Old English brasian, bræsian (to cover with brass). By surface analysis, bras(s) + -ier.

    Noun

    brazier (plural braziers)

    1. A worker in brass; a brassworker.
      Synonym: brassworker
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    Etymology 2

    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.

    Noun

    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.
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