ferroconcrete
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of ferroconcrete
Example Sentences
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Originally Clyde’s Cleaners, built in 1946 to serve Lower Queen Anne Hill, the building was refashioned in 1984 into the ferroconcrete mound popularly known as The Blob.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2022
A ponderous tome, its almost every paragraph is studded with ferroconcrete facts and charges that are almost too heavy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Using his ferroconcrete, he built a 38-ft. ketch for himself, with a hull � in. thick, found that it sailed beautifully, was sturdy, watertight and needed no maintenance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today in Germany we write poems in steel and symphonies in ferroconcrete.
From Time Magazine Archive
They occupied a large building constructed of ferroconcrete, on each floor of which, except the first, there was accommodation for hundreds of clerks.
From Too Old for Dolls A Novel by Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
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