bricky
Americanadjective
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of bricky
Example Sentences
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"Look at these spaces," says chief designer Simeon Bruner, marveling at the hulking, bricky, fortress-of-industry buildings.
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His face began to assume an unbecoming bricky hue.
From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson
The land is ungrateful and barren, and niggardly repays the toil of the cultivator, being for the most part rocky, with a slight sprinkling of a red bricky earth.
From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Darlow, Thomas Herbert
The pale woman—for her bricky colour had faded out—thrilled and glowed.
From Sisters by Cambridge, Ada
The edifice, although quaint, and rather poor-looking at first sight, owing to its bricky complexion, will bear close examination; indeed, the more you look at it and the better you become reconciled to its proportions.
From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus
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