briquetage
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]French briquetage (“brickwork”) (In French archaeology the term is also used in this extended, specialist sense)
Noun
[edit]briquetage (uncountable)
- (archaeology) burnt-clay remains associated with historical salt production.
- (archaeology, more generally) any crudely-made objects fashioned of burnt clay.
Coordinate terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]briquetage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Red hill (salt making) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Briquetage de la Seille on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
French
[edit]Noun
[edit]briquetage m (plural briquetages)
- brickwork
- a pattern of lines on plaster, etc., to imitate brickwork
- briquetage
Further reading
[edit]- “briquetage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.