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chauffer (n.)
"small portable stove," 1825, variant of
chafer
"a vessel for heating," agent noun from
chafe
; form influenced by French
chauffoir
"a heater," from
chauffer
"to heat," which also is ultimately from
chafe
(see
chauffeur
).
