Brickiness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being bricky. uncountable

    "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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"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[…]"

Etymology

From bricky + -ness.

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