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a fire you can carry, civilization's answer to the question of portable warmth
means A portable metal pan, bowl, or basket that holds burning coals or charcoal for heat or cooking.
from From French brasier, built on braise — "hot coals, embers" — the same root that gives us the cooking term braise (food cooked slowly over coals). Beneath it lies an old Germanic word for glowing coals, also the source of brass and the warm-colored brazen. So the brazier is, quite literally, a vessel of embers — its name carries the glow inside it.
- ancient roots
- Romans heated villas with bronze braziers full of coals
- deadly indoors
- poor ventilation made them silent carbon monoxide killers
- sacred fire
- temples kept eternal flames burning in ceremonial braziers
- street staple
- chestnut vendors still roast over coal-filled braziers today
- name confusion
- often misread as brassiere, an entirely different support system
for instance
olympic cauldron beijing 2008 — massive brazier that rose 30 meters above bird's nest stadium with torch relay finale