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brazier
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Definition:1. one who works brass2. a small charcoal burner used to provide light, heat or for cooking; basically a hibachi grill3. a fire used at a cultural or religious service
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also written brasier
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[Mr. Dick] never made a suggestion but once; and on that occasion (I don't know what put it in his head), he suddenly proposed that I should be 'a Brazier'. My aunt received this proposal so very ungraciously, that he never ventured on a second;
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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The room was small, but well lit, with a rather homely looking brazier in which burned a cheery fire.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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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.
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it was remarked that she prayed longer in the chapel, where a brazier was kept burning for her all day.
Edith Wharton. Crucial Instances: The Duchess at Prayer (1901)
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vanish like a vapour through that sort of truncated funnel, of oblong cage, of open chimney that rises so grotesquely from the cathedral like the extravagant attempt of some fantastic brazier.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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