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briquetage Archæol.|brɪkəˈtɑːʒ| Also bricquetage, briquettage. [F. briquetage.] Objects fashioned of burnt clay (see also quot. 1960).
1902Amer. Anthropol. IV. 162/2 The name ‘bricquetage’ is given to masses of oven-baked clay found in heaps in the region of Vic and elsewhere. 1908Athenæum 28 Mar. 391/2 The clay objects mentioned above, to which the Committee have provisionally given the non-committal name of ‘briquettage’. 1960Lincs. Archit. & Archæol. Soc. VIII. 70 The word ‘briquetage’..can be used to include debris produced by so many different activities, from potting and salting to corndrying, and it can also include material which may be purely domestic, such as the remains of hearths and chimneys, or the clay walls of buildings which have been burnt. |