brick red
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- noun
- /brɪk rɛd/
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- She chose a brick red paint to make the living room feel warm and inviting.
- dull brick red
- brick red in color
It's a little bit of an orangey red, like a brick red.
- It's a little bit of an orangey red, like a brick red.
Examples
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Inspection of the polyphenolics reveals magnificent hues of brick red, indicative of a mature Bordeaux.
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They wear brick red on the road.
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And it's a much darker brick red colour almost.
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Basically it's like a nice kind of muted brick red color.
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But in my memory, the tower appears to glow brick red and dwarf the mountains of Oregon's Coast Range in the background.
Academic text (2007) -
Paint or stain the porch dark brown or brick red to blend in better with the brick facade.
Blog text (24) -
Master's face flushed brick red with discomfort and a sort of choked anger.
Fiction book (1993) -
The brick-red extract is fragrant and appetizing, making the hours of preparation as agonizing as the result is rewarding.
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Bright red, brick red, burnt oranges, terracotta oranges, really vivid orange can look absolutely beautiful on deeper skin tones.
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But she puffed out a big sigh of relief when she saw George Ambrose's brick-red mane rising through the open hatch.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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A dark reddish brown color
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A brown color with a slight red tint
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A deep red color often used by artists for drawing
A warm red-brown color often used in paint and design
A deep warm red with a slight brown tone
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Morphology
The meaning 'a strong reddish-brown colour like a typical red brick' is directly compositional from 'brick' (an object with that characteristic colour) + 'red' (the colour), so the shade is inferable from the constituents. The noun+colour compounding pattern to denote a specific shade is common in English and cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Brick red comes from the ordinary clay brick, which has a warm red-brown colour used in many buildings, and people used that clear picture to name the colour. So brick red now means 'a strong reddish-brown colour'.