face brick

noun

A type of high quality brick used for the fronts of buildings; also, in collective sense, as a type of building material.

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Meanings

nounface brick (countable and uncountable, plural face bricks)

plural face bricks · alternative facebrick · alternative face-brick

  1. countableuncountableA type of high quality brick used for the fronts of buildings; also, in collective sense, as a type of building material.

    I can recall all the small particulars of that disturbing summer night. The blue lamp in front of the face-brick building.

    1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 314
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APA

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Chicago

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