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
Today in Germany we write poems in steel and symphonies in ferroconcrete.
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
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 Miller, Francis Trevelyan
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