Meanings
plural brickfields · alternative brick field · alternative brick-field
- A place where bricks are made, particularly a field or other open site; a brickyard.
Then they passed by lonely brickfields. The fog was lighter here, and he could see the strange bottle-shaped kilns with their orange fan-like tongues of fire.
1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XVI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 276
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