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• “Les deux tombeaux sont couleur de jaspre sur le vermeil, comme une brique (de jaspe rouge).”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic _bricke_, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French _brique_, originally a "broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic _brikan_, to break), a kind of artificial stone generally made of burnt clay, and largely used as a building material.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"

• “BRIQUETTE (diminutive of Fr. _brique_, brick), a form of fuel, known also as "patent fuel," consisting of small coal compressed into solid blocks by the aid of some binding material.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"

• “Le porc n'avais pas beaucoup de sauce et était plutôt sec, du moins le restaurant était joli avec des grands murs de brique.”

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• “ Nikki racerback tank, $165 @bergdorfgoodman.com; tiered brique skirt, $128, and stud bangles, $22, both from J. Crew; bird earrings, $42 @”

  Minnesota Monthly Web Edition

• “Elsewhere you'll find a plate of osetra-topped bay scallops, two of which are imprisoned in cages of crispy brique pastry - jagged beggar's purses well worth begging for - with a bit of lemongrass cream beneath.”

  chicagotribune.com - News

• “Il ne reste de tous les batiments qu'ils y eleverent que ceux des officiers charges de l'ad_ministration et de la culture des jardins, et un pavilion carre en pierre et en brique flanque de terrasses a chacun de ses angles.”

  The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete

• “Sur la gauche la commode WERTHER et la bibliothèque avec portes coulissantes de couleur rouge brique.”

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• “A la di stasio 10.00 TV5Monde, l'info 10.05 Une brique dans le ventre”

  Kathimerini English Edition : Print Edition : 26/6/09

• “This was followed by a tartare of crab, sprinkled with gold leaf and tiny flowers ( "You can eat it all," my waiter assured me), then a brique of meltingly soft tuna with girolles (wild mushrooms) cooked to preference.”

  The Paris Blog

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