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bricken en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbɹɪkən/

Etymology

From brick + -en.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, not-comparable) Made of brick.
    • In a minute or two the train turns the angle of the line, and then through what a bricken wilderness of roofs it seems to be ploughing its way, and how odd the people look, as they slide swiftly by, in their wretched garrets! 1857, Henry Mayhew, The Great World of London:
    • […] in this country, I say, where the people pass at least seven-eighths of their time within doors, it is but natural that the word home should have extended itself into something more than a mere covering—a bricken case for our bodies (like the Italian casa). 1852, Charles John Chetwynd Talbot Shrewsbury, Meliora, page 260: