briquetagen.
/brɪkəˈtɑːʒ/ Archaeology.
Objects fashioned of burnt clay (see also quot. 1960).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun]
clay-work1612
earthenwarea1624
pottery ware1633
pot-ware1661
earthware1713
ware1741
pottery1771
vitrefacture1841
ceramic1880
briquetage1902
1902 Amer. Anthropologist 4 162/2 The name ‘bricquetage’ is given to masses of oven-baked clay found in heaps in the region of Vic and elsewhere.
1908 Athenæum 28 Mar. 391/2 The clay objects mentioned above, to which the Committee have provisionally given the non-committal name of ‘briquettage’.
1960 Lincs. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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