Hibachi

A charcoal grill.


Made from two Japanese words—hi, meaning fire, and bachi, meaning pot—hibachi entered English in 1863 as the name for a large, clay pan in which char coal was burnt in order to heat a living room. The word did not come to signify a culinary implement until the 1960s in America, where it also acquired the sense of being small and portable. In common parlance, the Japanese hibachi has replaced the English brazier, which means the same thing.


 


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