brickfield
See also: brick-field and brick field
English
Alternative forms
- brick field, brick-field
Etymology
From brick + field.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɹɪkfɪəld/
Noun
brickfield (plural brickfields)
- A place where bricks are made; a brickyard.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, chapter XVI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray:
- Then they passed by lonely brickfields. The fog was lighter here, and he could see the strange, bottle-shaped kilns with their orange, fanlike tongues of fire.
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