Roman Brick

Roman brick

Roman brick is a type of brick used in ancient Roman architecture and spread by the Romans to the lands they conquered, or a modern adaptation inspired by the ancient prototypes. Both types are characteristically longer and flatter than standard modern bricks.

Brick

A brick is a type of building material used to build walls, pavements, and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term brick denotes a unit primarily composed of clay, but it is now also used informally to denote building units made of other materials or other chemically cured construction blocks.

roman

Adjective

1. Upright, as opposed to italic.
2. Of or related to the Latin alphabet or roman numerals.

Noun

1. One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.
2. Ellipsis of roman numeral.

brick

Noun

1. A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
2. Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.

Verb

1. To build, line, or form with bricks.
2. To make into bricks.