brickmaking
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Authorities are also trying to put a stop to high-polluting practices, such as brickmaking and the burning of rice straw, which is an old farming custom.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2022
Children are doing every step of the brickmaking process.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
In the 1800s, Haverstraw, in Rockland County, was a brickmaking hub and the site of much innovation.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2021
She read about brickmaking and the Este family’s patronage of the arts, and she read Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini’s treatises on painting.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2015
At the end of his brickmaking, our adventurer found himself with a tolerable suit of clothes—somewhat darned—on his back, several blood-blisters in his palms, and some verdigris coppers in his pocket.
From Israel Potter by Herman Melville
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