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brickwork

[brik-wurk] / ˈbrɪkˌwɜrk /
NOUN
brick
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NOUN
masonry
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His inspectors frequently find breaches of building regulations, he tells us, including insulation, brickwork and carpentry problems.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

A few years ago, they considered stripping the paint to reveal the original brickwork of the more than 3,500-square-foot home, hoping to eliminate the need for future repainting.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 5, 2026

"The observatory is astronomy, it is also meteorology, and after many years I feel like I'm part of the brickwork."

From BBC Jul. 13, 2025

Under a microscope, most of the heart cockle's shell has a layered structure, with thin plates of aragonite stacked in different orientations, "kind of like fancy brickwork," McCoy said.

From Science Daily Dec. 2, 2024

The hooks have been set into the brickwork of the Wall, for this purpose.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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