ferroconcrete
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of ferroconcrete
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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
On a hill opposite the sprawling shoe works rises a brand new, two-story, ferroconcrete Bat'a Pantheon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The town was girdled by a 25-mile belt of ferroconcrete pillboxes, tank traps and barbed wire.
From Time Magazine Archive
A ponderous tome, its almost every paragraph is studded with ferroconcrete facts and charges that are almost too heavy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Millions have been spent on Sebenico, and it has been so fortified as to be absolutely impregnable from the sea, even the rocks facing the harbor having been cased in ferroconcrete and turned into forts.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Francis Trevelyan Miller
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