brazier

Etymology 1

From Middle English brasier, from brasen (“to make out of bronze or brass”), from Old English brasian, bræsian (“to cover with brass”), equivalent to brass + -ier.

noun

1. A worker in brass.

Etymology 2

From French brasier (“pan of hot coals”), from Middle French braisier, from Old French brasier, from brese (“embers, hot coals”), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brasō. See braise.

noun

1. An upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal for a source of light or heat.
   At almost any time, while the boats weigh anchor, a small party can be seen in the stern, clustering about a charcoal brazier- a woman busy dishing out bowls of soup and macaroni, and men in palm-leaf hats, their bronzed bodies stripped to the waist, hurriedly scooping up steaming threads with the aid of long wooden chop-sticks. March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine, pages 264–5