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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
Brazier
Brazier
Hello,
In the book "Parrot and Oliver in America" by Peter Carey, I came across a strange word: "brazier". According to dictionaries, it should be something like "a metal pan for holding burning coals or charcoal", something one uses rather outside than inside. But in this book it is apparently a device used inside and it has a chimney. Could such "pans" have chimneys, or is it something different than the dictionaries say?
Here is the context (Parrot is visiting an old forger named Watkins whom he knew when he was a little boy and his wife):
She [Watkin's wife] kneeled to place a lump of coal into a brazier whose crooked tin chimney teetered upward and out through the open window.
Thanks for your help.
Hello,
In the book "Parrot and Oliver in America" by Peter Carey, I came across a strange word: "brazier". According to dictionaries, it should be something like "a metal pan for holding burning coals or charcoal", something one uses rather outside than inside. But in this book it is apparently a device used inside and it has a chimney. Could such "pans" have chimneys, or is it something different than the dictionaries say?
Here is the context (Parrot is visiting an old forger named Watkins whom he knew when he was a little boy and his wife):
She [Watkin's wife] kneeled to place a lump of coal into a brazier whose crooked tin chimney teetered upward and out through the open window.
Thanks for your help.
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There are various kinds of braziers, and although I cannot find an appropriate picture on the internet, I can easily imagine one of the kind described: a small self-contained coal-burning heater with a tin pipe carrying smoke outside through the window.
- There are various kinds of braziers, and although I cannot find an appropriate picture on the internet, I can easily imagine one of the kind described: a small self-contained coal-burning heater with a tin pipe carrying smoke outside through the window.
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There are various kinds of braziers, and although I cannot find an appropriate picture on the internet, I can easily imagine one of the kind described: a small self-contained coal-burning heater with a tin pipe carrying smoke outside through the window.
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