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brickish

  • a word derived from brick.
    brick
    noun
    a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the United States, a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 centimeters), red, brown, or yellow in color.

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Last week the base and brickish skirt was creating a bitterer furor than ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

I can tell you Silk’s a good deal more brickish to me than you are!”

From The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed

Well, she had a slate-colored, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a feather of a brickish red.

From The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English by Egerton Castle

He mused, rubbing his tousled, brickish locks with a nervous hand.

From From a Bench in Our Square by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Then, a lurid blaze began to flicker behind his ice-blue eyes, and a brickish color surged into his face.

From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Albert Payson Terhune