Definition of Bricks and mortar

1. Noun. Building material consisting of bricks laid with mortar between them.

Generic synonyms: Building Material

Definition of Bricks and mortar

1. Noun. (business) Buildings and property for the conduct of business, particularly in the sale of retail goods to the general public. Used to contrast an internet-based sales operation that lacks customer-oriented store fronts and a "traditional" one for which most capital investment might be in the building infrastructure. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bricks And Mortar

brickless
bricklike
brickly
brickmaker
brickmaker's anaemia
brickmakers
brickmaking
brickman
brickmanship
brickmen
brickmould
brickmoulds
brickor mortis
bricks
bricks and clicks
bricks and mortar (current term)
bricks up
brickshaped
brickwise
brickwork
brickworks
bricky
brickyard
brickyards
bricolage
bricolages
bricole
bricoles
bricoleur
bricoleurs

Literary usage of Bricks and mortar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"... on the floor a sheet-iron plate—a large potsherd on the ground gives a satisfactory result—on which is placed a furnace of bricks and mortar, or better, ..."

2. Migration and the Labour Market in Asia: Recent Trends and Policies by Nihon Rōdō Kyōkai (2003)
"The old economy: bricks and mortar Looking back into Thailand's industrial development, we found that its overall industrial structure and its linkages have ..."

3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1866)
"... with siliceous minerals, such as opal,—all found in the interspaces of the bricks and mortar, or constituting part of their rearranged materials. ..."

4. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1857)
"... bricks and mortar. I have examined have tested the mortar, and found that neither other is better than, if so good as, the modern i ve at his command. ..."

5. Hygiene and Public Health by Louis Coltman Parkes, Henry Richard Kenwood (1913)
"Sometimes in new houses the wall-papers are stained from temporary dampness, which is due to the evaporation of the water in the new bricks and mortar ..."

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