Brick-red
yellowish or brownish red.
Historical Examples
Watch and Clock Escapements Anonymous
The Fighting Edge William MacLeod Raine
The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft Dan Beard
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Joel Munsell
The Purple Heights Marie Conway Oemler
My Danish Sweetheart., Volume 2 of 3 William Clark Russell
Cooley’s Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades…, Sixth Edition, Volume I Arnold Cooley
The Open Boat and Other Stories Stephen Crane
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White
The Red Year Louis Tracy
noun, adjective
a reddish-brown colour
(as adjective): a brick-red carpet
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