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face-brick

face-brick is the alternative form of face brick.

Meaning of face brick

Noun

face brick (countable and uncountable, plural face bricks)

  1. A 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

Forms of face-brick

pluralface-bricks

Questions about face-brick

What is face-brick the alternative form of?
Face-brick is the alternative form of face brick.

Words near face-brick in the dictionary

  1. face washers
  2. face worker
  3. face-ache
  4. face-aches
  5. face-blind
  6. face-brick
  7. face-bricks
  8. face-centered
  9. face-down
  10. face-downs
  11. face-first

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