noun
- Plural of gazogene; devices or bottles used to carbonate water or other liquids, popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Usage: historical; chiefly British
Examples
- Victorian households often kept gazogenes in their kitchens to make sparkling water at home.
- The antique shop displayed several ornate gazogenes from the 1880s.
- Before modern soda makers, gazogenes were the primary way to carbonate beverages domestically.
- She collected vintage gazogenes as part of her interest in 19th-century kitchen equipment.