hollow tile
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hollow tile
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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It is of hollow tile and stucco and cost about $100,000.
From The University of Michigan by Wilfred Shaw
That’s a stone man, a made-to-order concrete man, with hollow tile stomach and reinforced concrete arms and legs.
From Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective by Rea Irvin
He jerked the Roman tunic from the body and disclosed the hollow tile stomach.
From Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective by Rea Irvin
Luke Trull's hand crept like an unwieldy snake into the hollow tile and Frosty struck with unsheathed claws.
From Swamp Cat by James Arthur Kjelgaard
A few of the best examples extant serve to indicate that houses of this sort have all the charm of the modern stucco structure built over hollow tile.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins
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