brickfield

American  

[brik-feeld] / ˈbrɪkˌfild /

noun

British.

1. brickyard.

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Etymology

Origin of brickfield

First recorded in 1795–1805; brick + field

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Example Sentences

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brickfield

We are now, after almost six months' siege, some 1,700 yards in advance of the town, and the south-eastern outposts, as these brickfield forts are called, constitute our most outlying positions around beleaguered Mafeking.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by J. Angus Hamilton

Gone were the days of vagabondage, the lazy, the delicious even though cold and hungry hours of dreaming and reading in the brickfield; gone was the happy freedom of the chartered libertine of the gutter.

From The Fortunate Youth by William John Locke

She lived in Blomfield Road, Shepherd's Bush, a depressing, blind little street, at the end of which was a hoarding; this latter shut off a view of a seemingly boundless brickfield.

From Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Horace W. C. (Horace Wykeham Can) Newte

Nothing is quite so pleasant, so invigorating, nor quite so dangerous as life in these brickfield posts.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by J. Angus Hamilton

Near the brickfield there is that immense windmill, for of course every town must have one.

From St. Peter's Umbrella by Kálmán Mikszáth

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