montgolfier

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The two low masts of the schooner had been erected firmly on the shore, and formed supports for the montgolfier, which had been duly covered with the netting, and was ready at any moment to be inflated.

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  1. A balloon filled with air expanded by heat.

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  1. from French montgolfière, a balloon, so called from the brothers Montgolfier, who in 1783 sent up the first balloon at Annonay, France.
 

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