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 [mont-gol-fee-er; Fr. mawn-gawl-fyey]  

mont·gol·fi·er

   [mont-gol-fee-er; Fr. mawn-gawl-fyey]
noun, plural mont·gol·fi·ers  [-fee-erz; Fr. -fyey] .
a balloon raised by air heated from a fire in the lower part.
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1775–85; named after Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier

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Mont·gol·fi·er

   [mont-gol-fee-er; Fr. mawn-gawl-fyey]
noun
Jacques É·tienne  [zhahk ey-tyen] , 1745–99, and his brother Jo·seph Mi·chel  [zhaw-zef mee-shel] , 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
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montgolfier (mɒntˈɡɒlfɪə, French mɔ̃ɡɔlfje)
 
—n
obsolete a hot-air balloon
 
[C18: see Montgolfier]

Montgolfier (French mɔ̃ɡɔlfje)
 
—n
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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