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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-fyay] / 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-fyay] / 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

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Etymology

Origin of montgolfier

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

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Example Sentences

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montgolfier Montgolfier

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

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

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

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

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

When Montgolfier and his team raided the apartment of Falciani’s parents, they did not realize that another French official already possessed a copy of the list.

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

The first balloons, filled with heated air, were called Montgolfières from the inventors, the brothers Montgolfier, living in Annonay, France.

From Sounding the Ocean of Air by A. Lawrence Rotch

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