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  • 1Brick Romanesque — ( de. Backsteinromanik) is an architectural style and chronological phase of architectural history. The term described Romanesque buildings built of brick; like the subsequent Brick Gothic, it is geographically limited to Northern Germany and the …

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  • 2brick and tile — ▪ building material Introduction       structural clay products, manufactured as standard units, used in building construction.       The brick, first produced in a sun dried form at least 6,000 years ago and the forerunner of a wide range of… …

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  • 3Brick Gothic — St. Mary s Church in Gdańsk, formerly the biggest brick church in the world.Brick Gothic ( de. Backsteingotik) is a reduced style of Gothic architecture common in Northern Europe, especially in Northern Germany and the regions around the Baltic… …

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  • 4built like a brick shithouse — 1. mod. pertaining to a very strong and well built person. (Usually refers to a male. Refers to the sturdiness of an outhouse [outdoor toilet] built of brick rather than the traditional wooden outhouse. Usually objectionable.) □ Chuck is built… …

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  • 5brick — n., v., & adj. n. 1 a a small, usu. rectangular, block of fired or sun dried clay, used in building. b the material used to make these. c a similar block of concrete etc. 2 Brit. a child s toy building block. 3 a brick shaped solid object (a… …

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  • 6BRICK —    Brick is a form of man made masonry that can be layered to enclose a space or held together with a mortar binder to create a structural support. Brick is made of a mixture of clay and sand, while the mortar is made of sand and a paste. The… …

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  • 7brick-built — UK US adjective british made out of bricks brick built houses Thesaurus: words that describe buildings or rooms and parts of buildingshyponym farm buildings and structures where animals are kepthyponym * * * adj. [attrib.] (of a building or… …

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  • 8brick — [brik] n. [ME brike < MDu < breken, BREAK (in sense “piece of baked clay”) & MFr brique < OFr, of same orig.] 1. a substance made from clay molded into oblong blocks and fired in a kiln or baked in the sun, used in building, paving, etc …

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  • 9Brick — For other uses, see Brick (disambiguation). An old brick wall in English bond laid with alternating courses of headers and stretchers …

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  • 10Brick Lane — For other uses, see Brick Lane (disambiguation). Brick Lane street sign in English and Bengali Brick Lane (Bengali: ব্রিক লেন) is a street in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London. It runs from Swanfield Street in the… …

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