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brick-dust|ˈbrɪkdʌst|
[f. as prec. + dust.]
1. Powdered brick.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 195 Where the Soil is Clay..mingle it with Brick-dust. 1862Enquire Within 279 The cayenne of commerce is adulterated with brick-dust.
2. A tint or colour resembling that of brickdust.
1807Opie Lect. Art. i. (1848) 247 The barren coldness of David, the brick-dust of the learned Poussin.
b. attrib.
1709Steele Tatler No. 9 ⁋1 Brickdust Moll had scream'd through half a Street. 1775Clayton in Phil. Trans. LXVI. 108 A brick-dust red. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xviii. (1856) 135 Tinged with a brick-dust or brown stain. 1873Tristram Moab xiii. 249 Its leaves and fruit-pods [are] a brick-dust orange.
3. Hence brickdust-like, brickdusty a.
1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. ii. 35 The brickdusty poverty of the blood. 1863Buckland Curios. Nat. Hist. Ser. ii. (ed. 4) 205 There was a red brick-dust-like substance. 1883Harper's Mag. Dec. 131/1 A light brick-dusty color. |