bricktop

American  

[brik-top] / ˈbrɪkˌtɒp /

noun

Informal.

1. a person having red or reddish-brown hair.

2. hair of this color.

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Etymology

Origin of bricktop

1840–50, brick + top ¹, from the typical color of bricks

Example Sentences

Police apprehended Johnson after receiving a call about a customer “causing a disturbance” and “screaming at patrons” at BrickTop’s restaurant in the city’s downtown area, the incident report said.

From Los Angeles Times

According to the report, officers identified and located Johnson after she left BrickTop’s and went down the street, “screaming profanities at a male who was walking with her.”

From Los Angeles Times

Eugene Bullard, the world’s first Black fighter pilot who was also awarded the Croix de Guerre, ran a series of successful Paris nightclubs in the 1920s and 1930s, most notably Le Grand Duc where Langston Hughes worked as a busboy and where Ada Smith, the performer known as Bricktop, worked as a hostess who would later open her own celebrated nightclub.

From New York Times

Of course Josephine Baker is performing the night that Lee goes to Bricktop’s; of course she’s singing “Blue Skies,” the lyrics aligning perfectly with Lee’s own hopeful mood.

From New York Times

Bricktop, who later took Baker under her wing, first performed.

From New York Times