face brick
English
Alternative forms
- facebrick
- face-brick
Noun
face brick (countable and uncountable, plural face bricks)
- A type of high quality brick used for the fronts of buildings; also, in collective sense, as a type of building material.
- 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 314:
- I can recall all the small particulars of that disturbing summer night. The blue lamp in front of the face-brick building.
- 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 314: