brickwork

CEFRB2

/ˈbɹɪk.wɝk/

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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The old brickwork began to crumble.
The chimney, built in brickwork, was to be plastered on the inside several feet from where the fireplace was to be.
The two lower rows of tubes at each end pier were then drilled through to the extrados of the brickwork to act as weep holes and assist in the drainage from the backs of the arches.

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The two lower rows of tubes at each end pier were then drilled through to the extrados of the brickwork to act as weep holes and assist in the drainage from the backs of the arches.
1954 January 26, “Strengthening of Coquet Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 19
The chimney, built in brickwork, was to be plastered on the inside several feet from where the fireplace was to be.
1995, Fred Archer, “Sapper, a Master Plasterer”, in The Cuckoo Pen: Tales of English Village Life Between the Wars, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton Publising, →ISBN, page 69

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From brick + -work.