briquet

• briquette

From French briquette, diminutive of brique (“brick”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /bɹɪˈkɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

briquet (plural briquets)

1. A small brick, typically made of charcoal and 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. A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving.
3. A moulded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material.
4. (dated) 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.

Specialised sense of Middle French briquet (“piece, morsel”), from brique.

• IPA^(key): /bʁi.kɛ/

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briquet m (plural briquets)

1. (obsolete) frizzen
2. (cigarette) lighter
3. (zoology) beagle
4. (heraldry) firesteel

• “briquet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

briquet m (plural briquetes)

1. (Colombia) lighter

• encendedor m
• fosforera f (Cuba)
• lighter m (Panama, Puerto Rico)
• mechero m (Spain)
• yesquero m (Venezuela)