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Some of the brickwork is in need of repair.
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Regular maintenance of brickwork helps prevent water leaks, while chimney caps keep animals out.
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Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 8 Nov. 2025
It is also lauded as la città rossa, or the red city—first, because of its distinctive brickwork, and, second, because of the leftist hue of its politics.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
An image of brick wall shared to Reddit has drawn widespread attention to an unexpected piece of 19th-century history—a set of tiny cat paw prints preserved in the brickwork at a loft in Montreal, Canada.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Serious Austen devotees might point out that no movie or TV series can capture the austere intelligence of Austen’s prose, in which the words are laid out as neatly as brickwork in a garden path and given a light glaze of ironic observation.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 19 July 2025
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Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 8 Nov. 2025
It is also lauded as la città rossa, or the red city—first, because of its distinctive brickwork, and, second, because of the leftist hue of its politics.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
An image of brick wall shared to Reddit has drawn widespread attention to an unexpected piece of 19th-century history—a set of tiny cat paw prints preserved in the brickwork at a loft in Montreal, Canada.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Serious Austen devotees might point out that no movie or TV series can capture the austere intelligence of Austen’s prose, in which the words are laid out as neatly as brickwork in a garden path and given a light glaze of ironic observation.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 19 July 2025
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“Brickwork.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brickwork. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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brickwork
noun
brick·work
ˈbrik-ˌwərk 
: work made of bricks and mortar
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