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a clay rectangle so reliable it outlived every empire that stacked it
means A hard, rectangular block of fired or sun-dried clay used as a basic building material, or by extension anything resembling such a block in shape or unyielding solidity.
from From Middle English brik, borrowed in the 15th century from Old French brique, which itself likely came from a Middle Dutch or Middle Low German word bricke meaning a tile or fragment — possibly tied to the notion of something 'broken' or cut into a block. The English-speaking world had baked clay long before the word arrived; it took a loan from the Low Countries' brickmakers to give the thing its lasting name.
- oldest known
- Sun-dried mud bricks date back over 9,000 years
- phone slang
- A dead device is called a brick for good reason
- gold bars
- Gold ingots are literally shaped like bricks
- great wall
- Made from millions of bricks bound with sticky rice
- fire trick
- Fired bricks survive blazes that melt steel beams
great wall of china — constructed with millions of bricks over 2,000+ years across northern china
brick lane london — historic street in whitechapel, east london, named for its 17th century brick industry
the brick house — oldest continuously occupied european building in the united states, built 1650 in maryland