brickiness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

bricky +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

brickiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being bricky.
    • 1825, The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, volume 2, page 342:
      It was afterwards painted in fresco by Giulo Romano, and the colouring has its faults ; too much of that red hue, that opaque brickiness, that general diffusion of lights, and want of chiar-oscuro, that we see in his works […]
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