briquette
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From French briquette, from brique (“brick”) + -ette (“forming diminutives”).
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 edit
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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.