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• montgolfier
  montgolfier

  noun

  a balloon raised by air heated from a fire in the lower part.
• Montgolfier
  Montgolfier

  noun

  Jacques Étienne 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.

montgolfier

¹ American  

[mont-gol-fee-er, mawn-gawl-fyey] / mɒntˈgɒl fi ər, mɔ̃ gɔlˈfjeɪ /

noun

• montgolfiers
  plural

1. a balloon raised by air heated from a fire in the lower part.

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Montgolfier ² American  

[mont-gol-fee-er, mawn-gawl-fyey] / mɒntˈgɒl fi ər, mɔ̃ gɔlˈfjeɪ /

noun

1. Jacques Étienne 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.

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Montgolfier ¹ British  

/ mɔ̃ɡɔlfje /

noun

1. Jacques Étienne (ʒak etjɛn), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel (ʒozɛf miʃɛl), 1740–1810, French inventors, who built (1782) and ascended in (1783) the first practical hot-air balloon

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montgolfier ² British  

/ mɒntˈɡɒlfɪə, mɔ̃ɡɔlfje /

noun

1. obsolete a hot-air balloon

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• montgolfiers
  plural

Etymology

Origin of montgolfier

First recorded in 1775–85; named after Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier

Example Sentences

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montgolfier Montgolfier

The montgolfier, elongated to its utmost stretch, was manifestly being sucked into a vortex.

From Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Jules Verne

There was a montgolfier combined with the balloon of inflammable air.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

It is suspected the heat of the montgolfier rarefied too much the inflammable air of the other, and occasioned it to burst.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

To Lieutenant Procope himself was entrusted the superintendence of the construction of the montgolfier, and the work was begun at once.

From Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Jules Verne

In 1783, the first manned balloon flight took place in Paris as Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier ascended in a basket attached to a tethered Montgolfier hot-air balloon, rising to about 75 feet.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 15, 2018

The prosecutor in Nice who handled the case, Éric de Montgolfier, told me that authorities in Switzerland were so eager to seize Falciani’s computer that they sent a Swiss prosecutor to accompany the gendarmes.

From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016

Mr. Johnson helped Mr. Bradbury adapt his story “Icarus Montgolfier Wright” into an animated short that was nominated for an Academy Award in 1963.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2015

Johnson was revered among fans of the sci-fi genre for his work, which also included a collaboration with Ray Bradbury on the 1962 Oscar-nominated animated short film Icarus Montgolfier Wright.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2015

Bréguet, Montgolfier, and others all made him welcome.

From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Anne Thackeray Ritchie