mud brick
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2.7
- noun
- /mʌd brɪk/
:
ladrillo de barro
- Walls were built of mud bricks and were windowless.
- made of mud brick
And soon, you know, they're building huge structures out of mud brick.
- And soon, you know, they're building huge structures out of mud brick.
- And they were moving into these really remote environments, you know, several hours drive from the main cities where people had built their, their houses out of mud brick.
- Same with sculpture, you know, stone, steel, mud bricks, whatever it may be.
Examples
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Spreading out from Garama's monumental center were suburbs made up of numerous houses, mostly rectangular and made of mud brick.
Academic text (2004) -
The ancient structures were primarily built using mud brick, which helped keep them cool in the hot climate.
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Unlike others in the Roman world, they are made of mud brick, not stone.
Academic text (2008) -
Same with sculpture, you know, stone, steel, mud bricks, whatever it may be.
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There can also be patterns made in mud bricks, and this one, of course, is something related to the palm tree.
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Made of mud brick, they were erected from the first to the fourth centuries A.D.
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Well, when the city met its end, these mud brick walls collapsed and they actually fell down to the base of the stone retaining wall.
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At its base was a stone retaining wall more than 15 feet high, with a defensive extension wall of mud bricks rising higher still.
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The streets behind its tall mud brick walls bounded blocks of low houses, many equipped with Greek style bathing rooms.
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It is identical to every other house in the village: a one-story walled hut made out of mud bricks.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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1.0
A hard rectangular block of baked clay used to build walls or paths
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5.1
A brick made from earth, clay, sand, and straw dried in the sun to build houses in hot dry places
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5.0
A brick made from clay and straw that dries in the sun for building in hot dry places
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly composed from 'mud' (soft earth) + 'brick' (a building block), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer a brick made from mud. This type of compound is cross-linguistically common (e.g. 'adobe' equivalents) and follows straightforward noun+noun composition, making it transparently interpretable.
Etymology
Mud brick comes from a simple building image: people mixed wet mud with straw, pressed it into a brick, and left it to dry in the sun. Because these sun-dried blocks were used to build walls and houses, the name now means 'a brick made by shaping mud and letting it harden'.