quinquet
common noun
Syllable Decomposition
quinquetA word that appeared at the end of the 18th century, from the name of Antoine Quinquet (1745-1803), a pharmacist in Paris, who commercialized and improved the invention of the Genevan physicist and chemist Ami Argand (1750-1803), as mentioned by Bernard Jullien in his grammar theses (1857).
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quinquets