| 单词 | mud-brick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmud-brick mud-brick n. a brick made of (usually unfired) mud; such bricks collectively; frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > earth > [noun] > mud-brick adobe1748 mud-brick1810 dobe1838 1810 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi App. ii. 7 Houses would be built entirely of mud-brick (like those in New Spain). 1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. vii. 71 She came..to a reed fence built about a round-roofed hut of mud-bricks. 1903 Speaker 5 Sept. 527/2 The old town being built of mud-brick had vanished. 1963 M. Laurence Tomorrow-tamer 227 Then she was gone, shutting quietly behind her the packing-case door of the mudbrick shanty. 1991 A. Hourani Hist. Arab Peoples ii. vi. 105 Grandparents, parents and children living together in village houses made of stone, mud-brick or whatever material was locally available. < as lemmas |
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