Roman brick

noun

1. a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.

Example Sentences

The facade features pressed Roman brick and brownstone and is adorned with a Palladian window and cast-iron balconettes.

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It’s a grand Roman brick structure from the 1920s, decorated with terra-cotta tiles and Egyptian-themed pilasters.

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The Cheney house, built in 1903, was a broad-shouldered example of Wright’s Prairie style, its hipped roof extending protectively over a base of Roman brick.

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Many Roman brick buildings are long gone - but not because the bricks themselves have decayed.

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They were not confident of finding anything at all, but , human remains spanning centuries, broken, carved stone from many earlier periods of the building, Roman brick and finds such the little coin have poured out of the small, square pit.

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