| 单词 | face-brick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasface-brick face-brick n. originally U.S. a high-quality brick used for facing buildings, etc., a facing-brick; (also) these collectively as a building material, esp. when masking an inferior one; face-work of brick. ΚΠ 1807 Independent Chron. (Boston, Mass.) 21 Sept. 3/2 The Subscriber has been at considerable expense for several years past in the improvement of Face Bricks..superior to the Philadelphia Bricks. 1878 Congress. Rec. 25 Jan. 548/1 In consequence of the limit placed upon the cost of the building, it was found necessary to adopt face-brick. 1901 R. Sturgis Dict. Archit. I. 356 Brick, Face Brick, one of a superior quality used for the face of a wall. 1999 J. M. Coetzee Disgrace (2000) xix. 164 The school is of a piece with the housing estate: a low building in face-brick with steel windows and an asbestos roof. < as lemmas |
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