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

But I was mucking about with this song in my studio at home — this song by the Montgolfier Brothers, “Between Two Points” — and the sentiments of the lyrics just were not working for me.

From Los Angeles Times

The dream of traveling skyward became a reality in 1783, when two French brothers, Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, launched the first piloted hot-air balloon.

From Washington Post

While in Davezieux, we visited a museum honoring the achievements of the Canson and Montgolfier families, which pioneered both modern papermaking and ballooning.

From Washington Post

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

So, humans have basically always wanted to fly because we evolved on a planet with birds and who can look at a bird and not think “I’d like to do that”? There’s been this dream of humanity for thousands of thousands of years, when we figure it out in 1783 with the hot air balloon and the Montgolfier brothers.

From The Verge