[f. as prec. + DUST.]
1. Powdered brick.
1664. Evelyn, Kal. Hort. (1729), 195. Where the Soil is Clay … mingle it with Brick-dust.
1862. Enquire Within on Ev., 279/1. The cayenne of commerce is adulterated with brick-dust, red wood dust, [etc.].
2. A tint or color resembling that of brickdust.
1807. Opie, Lect. Art, I. (1848), 247. The barren coldness of David, the brick-dust of the learned Poussin.
b. attrib.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 9, ¶ 1. Brickdust Moll had scream’d through half a Street.
1775. Clayton, in Phil. Trans., LXVI. 108. A brick-dust red.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xviii. (1856), 135. Tinged with a brick-dust or brown stain.
1873. Tristram, Moab, xiii. 249. Its leaves and fruit-pods [are] a brick-dust orange.
3. Hence Brickdust-like, Brickdusty a.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., II. ii. 35. The brickdusty poverty of the blood.
1863. Buckland, Curios. Nat. Hist., Ser. II. (ed. 4), 205. There was a red brick-dust-like substance.
1883. C. Reade, in Harper’s Mag., Dec., 131/1. A light brick-dusty color, very sweet and healthy, diffused all over two oval cheeks.
