briquette

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French briquette, from brique (“brick”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /bɹɪˈkɛt/
  • Audio (General American):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛt
  • Hyphenation: bri‧quette

Noun

briquette (plural briquettes)

  1. 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
  2. A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving.
  3. A molded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material.

Translations

Verb

briquette (third-person singular simple present briquettes, present participle briquetting, simple past and past participle briquetted)

  1. (transitive) To form (coal, etc.) into small bricks.

French

Etymology

From brique (“brick”) +‎ -ette (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

briquette f (plural briquettes)

  1. a small brick

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