pressed brick
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pressed brick
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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In September 1895, the edifice, comprising four floors of light-colored Enumclaw sandstone and pressed brick, trimmed with terra cotta and outfitted with the latest heating and plumbing, welcomed more than 200 students.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
A large building of pressed brick, trimmed with stone, loomed up before them.
From The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt
Beyond lies the main street, with some good business blocks,—a First National Bank in imposing granite, and a Masonic Temple in pressed brick.
From What eight million women want by Rheta Childe Dorr
The Reeves Building was as fireproof as a rock and as efficient as a typewriter; fourteen stories of yellow pressed brick, with clean, upright, unornamented lines.
From Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
The fronts were of pressed brick, relieved with Preston bands, window heads and cornices.
From The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 by George Stewart
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