cheminée

French

noun
Definitions
  • a chimney
  • a fireplace or hearth
  • a vertical vent, exhaust or gallery
  • a hole at the centre of some models of parachute
  • the glass tube protecting the flame of a kerosene or similar wick lamp
  • (technology) a vertical vacuum forming in a gasifier
  • (welding) a type of welding fault
  • (geology) the exhaust of a volcano
  • (geology) a vertical mineral vein
  • (theatre) large pipe containing ropes that serves to control theater backdrops

Etymology

Inherited from Old French cheminee inherited from Latin caminata, [camera] camīnāta, camīnus (furnace) derived from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (furnace).

Origin

Ancient Greek

κάμῑνος

Gloss

furnace

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