brick facade
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4.9
- noun
:
fachada de ladrillo
- Many of the stucco and brick facades cover minor vernacular buildings immediately inside the core.
- a red brick facade
- buildings with brick facades
- a white brick facade
Examples
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It wasn't really an alley as such, but was a circular doorway in the brick facade of the buildings, and it opened into a sort of courtyard, a patch of gray sky showing far overhead.
Fiction book (1998) -
A new brick facade obscures the bamboo siding.
Academic text (1991) -
The worst is a stone or brick facade on the front of huge McMansions with vinyl on the back.
Blog text (16) -
Banks flaunted brick facades with white columns and porticoes.
Fiction book (1990) -
Paint or stain the porch dark brown or brick red to blend in better with the brick facade.
Blog text (24) -
Brick facades appear on commercial and service structures of various architectural styles as well as on many of the residential buildings immediately inside the periphery of the Core.
Academic text (1995) -
At the edge of Reuben's vision, the brick facade of their hotel slid by like a dream, a blurred, distorted image through a wide-angle lens.
Fiction book (1999) -
When I stood in front of the respectable brick facade, appreciating how its three narrow levels really did make it look as self-contained as God, I couldn't believe my luck.
Fiction book (1992) -
The historic theater features a cream brick facade, and movies are still shown on a single screen.
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The exterior brick facade needed tuck-pointing on the south wall.
Synonyms
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3.3
Part of a building made of bricks held together with mortar
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4.4
A part of a building made of stone or bricks, like a wall
How Built
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'brick' modifies 'facade' to indicate the material or cladding of the building front, so a learner who knows both words can infer 'a building front made of bricks'. This noun–noun modifier pattern is common in English (and cross-linguistically), making the phrase immediately understandable to B1 learners who know the constituents.
Etymology
Brick facade gives a clear picture: the 'front' of a building, its facade, is wearing a coat of brick, like a face covered in rows of bricks. So brick facade means the visible 'outside' front of a building made from or covered with bricks.