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Civilization stacked one fired clay lie at a time: each brick slightly imperfect, the wall perfectly honest.
means The craft or structure of building with bricks laid in a bonded pattern, mortared together into a durable wall or surface.
from A straightforward compound: 'brick' plus 'work,' the same pattern as 'stonework' or 'ironwork.' 'Brick' itself entered English around the 15th century from French 'brique' (fragment, broken piece), related to Dutch and German words for breaking — so a brick was first just a broken-off, shaped lump of clay. 'Work' is ancient, rooted deep in Germanic languages meaning labor or the thing made by labor. Put together, 'brickwork' simply names the made thing: the labor of broken clay, stacked into permanence.
- the bond
- pattern of overlap stops walls splitting like zippers
- mortar's job
- weaker than brick on purpose, so it cracks first
- frogs
- the indent in bricks is called a frog, no amphibians involved
- ancient roots
- fired bricks predate concrete by thousands of years