briquet

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noun

Synonym of lighter in reference to any device used to light cigarettes.

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OriginFrench briquet ← Middle French briquet →
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Meanings

nounbriquet (plural briquets)

plural briquets

  1. alternativeAlternative form of briquette in all its senses.

    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. datedSynonym 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

  3. 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
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    […]swords had the Emperor's profile inlaid in silver in the thumb piece. Some NCO's briquets had similar ornaments. The officers' blades were inscribed 'Garde impériale' and either 'Grenadiers à pied' or 'Chasseurs à pied'.

    2017 June 30, Henri Lachouque, Anne S. K. Brown, The Anatomy of Glory: Napoleon and His Guard, Pen and Sword, →ISBN
verbbriquet (third-person singular simple present briquets, present participle briquetting, simple past and past participle briquetted)

present singular third person briquets · participle present briquetting · participle past briquetted · past briquetted

  1. alternativeAlternative form of briquette.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of lighter in reference to any device used to light cigarettes.

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lighter in reference to any device used to light cigarettes

More synonyms by meaning

nouna block made from charcoal or coal dust and burned as fuel

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briquette
Broader
block
Also see
briquettelighter

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchbriquet“piece, morsel”
  2. Frenchbriquet
  3. Englishbriquet

In most senses, a variant spelling of briquette. As a lighter, a borrowing of French briquet, from Middle French briquet (“piece, morsel”), from brique (“brick, block”) + -et (suffix forming masculine diminutives). The sword is so called due to its small size and perceived resemblance to a firelighter.

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APA

briquet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/briquet

MLA

“briquet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/briquet. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “briquet,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/briquet.

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