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Definition of Brick red
1. Noun. A bright reddish-brown color.
Definition of Brick red
1. Noun. warm brownish-red colour similar to that of red clay bricks. ¹
2. Adjective. Of a warm brownish-red colour similar to that of red clay bricks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brick Red
Literary usage of Brick red
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"It is not even apparent, at present, that this brick-red organ, which I have
examined, is of a glandular nature at all." Dr. Packard first described these ..."
2. Catalogue of Section One of the Museum of the Geological Survey, Embracing by George Christian Hoffmann (1893)
"(2) Soft brick (red), made from clay No. 4956.—J. McMichael, Kingston, 0., 1885.
... (3) Stock brick (red), machine-made, made from clay No. 4956. ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1887)
"Bright brick-red, fine granular, somewhat reniform, the surface assuming slightly
fibrous crystalline appearance. Durango ; from my Cabinet, I. a and b. 2. ..."
4. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"... brick red. gray and purplish, sandy; contains several thin beds of gray to
white sandstone 116 Sandstone. gray; weathers In-own; indurated at base, ..."
5. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"While most usually of a brick-red hue, Claparede and Lachmann mention that the
colour in this species is sometimes entirely absent, while in other instances ..."
6. A Practical Essay on the Analysis of Minerals: Exemplifying the Best Methods by Friedrich Christian Accum (1809)
"The ores called Fibrous Red Copper, and Tile, or brick red Copper Ore, Copper
Malm, all belong to this class, and may be examined in a like manner. ..."
7. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"It is of brick-red colour, spotted with white, dull, opaque, friable, adheres
strongly to the tongue, and breaks up in water into coarse Jumps, ..."
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