montgolfier Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun French inventor who (with his brother Josef Michel Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1745-1799)
    Jacques Etienne Montgolfier.
  2. noun French inventor who (with his brother Jacques Etienne Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1740-1810)
    Josef Michel Montgolfier.

WordNet


Mont`gol"fier noun
Definitions
  1. A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.

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