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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 gɔlˈfyeɪ /

noun

plural

montgolfiers

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 gɔlˈfyeɪ /

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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Etymology

Origin of montgolfier

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

Example Sentences

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 Verne, Jules

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 Verne, Jules

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 Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

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 Randolph, Thomas Jefferson