English

Alternative spellings

• briquette

Etymology

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

1. a small brick, typically made of charcoal and typically 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. (obsolete?) a cigarette lighter
   • 1919, John Galsworthy, Saint's Progress

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

Translations

• French: briquette

• French: briquet

French

Noun

1. lighter

Spanish

Pronunciation

Noun

1. lighter

Synonyms

• encendedor
• fosforera italbrac Cuba
• lighter
• mechero italbrac Spain
• yesquero italbrac Venezuela

• Charles Moїse Briquet (1880-1918) - Swiss paper merchant and scholar of watermarks.
• Artois Hound or Briquet, a rare breed of dog, and a descendant of the Bloodhound
• Briquette or briquet, a block of flammable matter which is used as fuel to start and maintain a fire
• Sabre, a sword with a curved, single-edged blade and a rather large hand guard, often carried in past centuries by infantrymen and artillerymen.
• A type of sandwich.
• Somatization disorder or Briquet's disorder, also Brissaud-Marie Syndrome, a psychiatric diagnosis
• False male genitals. In fourteenth-century Europe, high-ranking noblemen were permitted to display their genitals below a short tunic, while those not impressively endowed could, if they choose, wear a leather fake called a briquette.