brickwork

English

Etymology tree

English brick

English -work

English brickwork

From brick + -work.

brickwork (uncountable)

A structure, or portion of a structure, that is made out of bricks.
- 1954 January, “Strengthening of Coquet Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 19:
  The two lower rows of tubes at each end pier were then drilled through to the extrados of the brickwork to act as weep holes and assist in the drainage from the backs of the arches.
- 1995, Fred Archer, “Sapper, a Master Plasterer”, in The Cuckoo Pen: Tales of English Village Life Between the Wars, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton Publising, →ISBN, page 69:
  The chimney, built in brickwork, was to be plastered on the inside several feet from where the fireplace was to be.
The quality of the construction of a brick structure.

structure made of brick