face brick

English

Alternative forms

• facebrick
• face-brick

Noun

face brick (countable and uncountable, plural face bricks)

1. A type of high quality brick used for the fronts of buildings; also, in collective sense, as a type of building material.
   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 314:

     I can recall all the small particulars of that disturbing summer night. The blue lamp in front of the face-brick building.