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brickette

brickette is the alternative form of briquet.

Meaning of briquet

Noun

briquet (plural briquets)

  1. (dated) Synonym of lighter in reference to any device used to light cigarettes.
    • Out of the corner of his eye he caught the flash of a man's "briquet" lighting a cigarette.1919 October, John Galsworthy, chapter I, in Saint’s Progress, London: William Heinemann, published December 1919, →OCLC, part II, 3 §, page 115
    Synonyms:
    lighter in reference to any device used to light cigarettes
  2. A small short sword or sabre of a particular European (especially French) style.
    • '[…]blade. I'd say an infantry sword. Briquet sabre, if I know as much as I think I do. Napoleonic.' Jenna's heart galloped. Stacks upon stacks of classics used the Napoleonic War as a backdrop. She'd been right. […]2016 October 1, Colby Marshall, Flash Point, Severn House Publishers Ltd, →ISBN

Forms of brickette

pluralbrickettes

Origin of brickette

From brick + -ette.

Questions about brickette

What is brickette the alternative form of?
Brickette is the alternative form of briquet.

Words near brickette in the dictionary

  1. bricker
  2. brickeries
  3. brickers
  4. brickery
  5. Bricket Wood
  6. brickette
  7. brickettes
  8. brickety
  9. brickety-brack
  10. Brickey
  11. Brickeys

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