Other forms: braziers
A brazier is a metal basket for holding burning coals. Stand round the brazier, light the brazier, a glowing brazier.
It is the picture of every picket line and every night watchman in fiction. It must never be used indoors, since burning charcoal in an enclosed space produces carbon monoxide and kills people every winter.
1nounbrazierA metal basket for holding burning coals.
“The night watchmen warmed their hands over a brazier on the cold building site.”
brazier is a container.
From brass, from Old English braesian, to cover with brass, plus -er.
Old English
brasian
Middle English
brasiere
English, today
brazier
Built from
From Middle English brasiere, from brasen (“to cover with brass”), from Old English brasian, bræsian (“to cover with brass”). by surface analysis, bras(s) + brass + ier.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA