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- noun UK A lightweight building block made from
cinders andconcrete .
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Examples
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As I later discovered, St. Oswald's specialized in architectural sadismeven the new science lab (pride of the establishment) featured brown glass and breeze-block walls dating from 1958, height of the ugly unfriendly architecture movement.
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As he stood with his back to a white breeze-block wall after the game, hemmed in by reporters, it was the first time anyone had pinned the 21-year-old down all day.
England revel in exuberance of Ben Youngs after beating Australia
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Saber Kushour apologises as he asks his guests to move the plastic chairs on his breeze-block balcony a little closer to the door to his house.
Saber Kushour: 'My conviction for "rape by deception" has ruined my life'
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As a large-scale transcription of a movement from a viola da gamba sonata, Alissa Firsova's Allegro was a bright and multicoloured piece that attracted attention through its command of instruments used in breeze-block manner – sharply defined, if not exactly subtle.
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Their tiny breeze-block house has had no furniture since they burnt the last cupboard for heat.
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A question confronting the Football Association's review team is whether dropping a breeze-block from another country on an underperforming national team is the right way to improve results.
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Their tiny breeze-block house has had no furniture since they burnt the last cupboard for heat.
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Their tiny breeze-block house has had no furniture since they burnt the last cupboard for heat. thanks Ashraf
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Their tiny breeze-block house has had no furniture since they burnt the last cupboard for heat. thanks Ashraf
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The office is utilitarian, its breeze-block walls painted cream, its floors linoleum, but among the filing cabinets lurk eighteenth-century English tables and Chinese export porcelain, and the walls are decorated with hand-painted prints of English gardens.
knitandpurl commented on the word breeze-block
"As I later discovered, St. Oswald's specialized in architectural sadism—even the new science lab (pride of the establishment) featured brown glass and breeze-block walls dating from 1958, height of the ugly unfriendly architecture movement."
What I Was by Meg Rosoff, p 3
February 14, 2008