Mont·gol·fier (m nt-gl f - r, mô -gôl-fy ), Joseph Michel 1740-1810. French aeronautic inventor who with his brother Jacques Étienne (1745-1799) built and ascended in the first practical hot-air balloon (1783). |
montgolfier [mɒntˈgɒlfɪə (French) mɔ̃gɔlfje]
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(Engineering / Aeronautics) Obsolete a hot-air balloon
[after Jacques Etienne Montgolfier (1745-99) and his brother Joseph Michel Montgolfier (1740-1810), the French inventors who built (1782) and ascended in (1783) the first practical hot-air balloon]
Montgolfier (French) [mɔ̃gɔlfje]
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(Biographies / Montgolfier, Jacques Étienne (1745-1799) M, French, TECHNOLOGY: inventor, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: balloonist) Jacques Étienne (ʒak etjɛn), 1745-99, and his brother Joseph Michel (ʒozɛf miʃɛl), 1740-1810, French inventors, who built (1782) and ascended in (1783) the first practical hot-air balloon
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| Noun | 1. |  Montgolfier - French inventor who (with his brother Josef Michel Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1745-1799) |
| 2. | Montgolfier - French inventor who (with his brother Jacques Etienne Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1740-1810) |
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