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noun, feminine

tuyère

/tɥi.jɛʁ/

noun, feminine/tɥi.jɛʁ/plural: tuyères

an air vent in the masonry of a metallurgic oven; the back chamber of a combustion engine where the gas decompresses

Inherited from Old French toiere, from tuyau (“pipe, tube, channel”), of Germanic origin.