row of bricks
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2.6
- noun
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fila de ladrillos
- The cab lets Susan off in front of a row of brick tenements hung with black fire escapes.
Examples
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A bricklayer puts down three rows of bricks.
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It felt less pressed in than many of the houses in Delft, which were packed together in narrow rows of brick along the canals, their chimneys and stepped roofs reflected in the green canal water.
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It's not like simple masonry, where you use a little layer of mortar between each row of bricks.
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The builder carefully laid each row of bricks to create a sturdy wall.
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In the construction project, a straight row of bricks ensured proper alignment for the structure.
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To build the garden path, start with a row of bricks as the foundation for the stepping stones.
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward composition of 'row' (a horizontal line) and 'bricks' (building units) connected by the preposition 'of', so the meaning is directly derivable from the constituents. This is a common, literal noun phrase pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the words would readily understand it.
Etymology
Row of bricks gives a simple building picture: a straight line of bricks laid side by side to form one horizontal row in a wall. So it means 'a single layer of bricks' in a wall.