Arch. [mod.L., a Gr. ἔμπλεκτον: see prec.] ‘A kind of masonry, in which the outsides of the wall are ashlar, and the interval filled up with rubbish’ (Liddell and Scott).
1708–15. Kelsey, Emplecton opus, Masons-work well knit and couched together.
1731. In Bailey, vol. II.
