| 单词 | sun-dried brick |
| 释义 | > as lemmassun-dried brick b. Designating materials used for building, manufacturing, etc., produced in this way. Chiefly in sun-dried brick. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [adjective] > type of brick sun-dried1600 housing1703 shuffy1850 Fletton1908 sand-lime1910 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. vi. 268 Castles..enuironed with walles made of sunne-dried bricke. 1686 N. Crouch View Eng. Acquisitions in Guinea & E. Indies 162 The Houses are for the most part built of Sun-dried Bricks very large and lasting. 1787 tr. C. E. Savary Lett. on Egypt (ed. 2) I. xxviii. 428 Houses, built of sun-dried bricks, present a gloomy assemblage of huts. 1858 S. Birch Hist. Anc. Pottery I. 158 Sun-dried clay was used by the Greeks for modelling objects intended for internal decorations. 1929 Michigan Technic Nov. 12/1 Built from the usual sun-dried brick, without the use of mortar. 2006 Independent on Sunday 26 Feb. (Review Suppl.) 8/1 The Great Mosque, in Djenné, Mali..was built 100 years ago out of sun-dried mud bricks. < as lemmas |
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