brickscapen.
/ˈbrɪkskeɪp/, U.S. /ˈbrɪkˌskeɪp/ A view or prospect dominated by brick structures, as in a town or city; an urban landscape.
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1885 W. H. White Mark Rutherford's Deliv. ii. 23 Some relief from the contemplation of the landscape or brick-scape.
1946 Manch. Guardian 4 Mar. 3/5 Grey-blues range from ‘Norse gold’ and ‘sloeberry’ to ‘smoke haze’ (guaranteed to merge elegantly into any urban brickscape?).
2009 M. Sorkin Twenty Minutes in Manhattan 33 The windows open only onto a grim brickscape admitting at best murky light.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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