[f. BRICK sb. + -Y1.] a. Made or built of brick. b. Full of or abounding in bricks. c. Of the color of brick, brick-red.
1596. Spenser, Prothal., viii. Those bricky towres … Where … the studious Lawyers haue their bowers.
1610. W. Folkingham, Art of Survey, I. xi. 41. Brickie rubble.
1862. Spectator, 29 March, 355/2. Some broad and solid piece of completed masonry amid the desolate bricky preparations of ‘building lease’ ground as yet only proposing to become a town.
1884. St. James’s Gaz., 10 May, 6/2. The flesh-tints are a little hot and bricky.
Hence Brickiness.
Mod. ‘The unrelieved brickiness of the place.’
