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brazier

a grill
Not to be confused with:
brassiere – a woman’s undergarment that supports the breasts
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bra·zier 1

also bra·sier  (brā′zhər)
n.
One who makes brass articles.

[Middle English brasier, from bras, brass; see brass.]

bra·zier 2

also bra·sier  (brā′zhər)
n.
1. A metal pan for holding burning coals or charcoal.
2. A cooking device consisting of a charcoal or electric heating source over which food is grilled.

[French brasier, from braise, hot coals; see braise.]
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brazier

(ˈbreɪzɪə) or

brasier

n
(Professions) a person engaged in brass-working or brass-founding
[C14: from Old English bræsian to work in brass + -er1]
ˈbraziery n

brazier

(ˈbreɪzɪə) or

brasier

n
a portable metal receptacle for burning charcoal or coal, used for cooking, heating, etc
[C17: from French brasier, from braise live coals; see braise]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

bra•zier1

(ˈbreɪ ʒər)

n.
1. a metal receptacle for holding live coals or other fuel, as for heating a room.
2. a container holding live coals covered by a grill on which food is cooked.
[1680–90; earlier brasier < French. See braise, -er2]

bra•zier2

(ˈbreɪ ʒər)

n.
one who makes articles of brass.
[1275–1325; Middle English brasier= Old English bræsi(an) to work in brass + -er -er1]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.brazier - large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burnedbrazier - large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times
heater, warmer - device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room
hibachi - a portable brazier that burns charcoal and has a grill for cooking
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Translations

brazier

[ˈbreɪzɪəʳ] Nbrasero m
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

brazier

[ˈbreɪzɪər] nbrasero m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

brazier

n(Kohlen)feuer nt(im Freien); (= container)Kohlenbecken nt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

brazier

[ˈbreɪzɪəʳ] nbraciere m
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
A BRAZIER had a little Dog, which was a great favorite with his master, and his constant companion.
He added charcoal and a fisherman's brazier, a coffee pot and frying pan, and the coffee and the meat, and a black bass fresh from the water that day.
In the fireplace stood a brazier full of burning charcoal; for, though the weather was not cold, the evenings always seemed damp and chilly in that great room; and Legree, moreover, wanted a place to light his cigars, and heat his water for punch.
But in the corridors that followed the suite, there stood, opposite to each window, a heavy tripod, bearing a brazier of fire, that projected its rays through the tinted glass and so glaringly illumined the room.
She was then dining alone, and her solitary dinner had been brought in from somewhere, over a kind of brazier with a fire in it, and she had no company or prospect of company, that I could see, but the old man who had brought it.
'Yes, I will go to her, but like the Saint who laid one hand on the adulteress and thrust his other into the brazier. But there is no brazier here.' He looked round.
The fire was in a rusty brazier, not fitted to the hearth; and a common lamp, shaped like a hyacinth- root, smoked and flared in the neck of a stone bottle on the table.
At the end he felt faint and sick, and having lit some Algerian pastilles in a pierced copper brazier, he bathed his hands and forehead with a cool musk-scented vinegar.
'going out for soup,' and there is always some neighbour's brazier or hearth for them, which, if it does not warm, at least tempers the cold to them, and lastly, they sleep comfortably at night under a roof.
The strange visages which came, in turn, to gnash their teeth in the rose window, were like so many brands cast into the brazier; and from the whole of this effervescing crowd, there escaped, as from a furnace, a sharp, piercing, stinging noise, hissing like the wings of a gnat.
At the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon his knees, staring into the fire.
When she arrived, she was so thickly veiled that the dervish could not see her face, but he desired a brazier to be held over her head, and laid the seven hairs on the burning coals.