Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kiln for baking tiles.
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Examples
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This was decided upon and they lay down in a tile-kiln, in the passageway formed by two walls of heaped-up bricks.
The Quest P��o Baroja 1914
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In the extensive courtyard was a set of out-buildings, consisting of a gardener's cottage, cartshed, and stable for six horses; and as on the ground belonging to the house there had formerly existed a tile-kiln (tuilerie) with drying sheds, there was ample space for a garden after removing the rubbish which still covered it.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896
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[H] Tillieres, the Tuileries or tile-kiln, was old French for clay-pit or brick-yard, and is the name also of a famous French palace.
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874
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The cost of these will, of course, be very much affected by the considerations of the nearness of the tile-kiln and the cost of transportation.
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In the extensive courtyard was a set of out-buildings, consisting of a gardener's cottage, cartshed, and stable for six horses; and as on the ground belonging to the house there had formerly existed a tile-kiln
Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 Eug��nie Hamerton 1864
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The argillaceous deposit of Blackpots occupies, in the form of a green swelling bank, a promontory rather soft than bold in its contour, that projects far into the sea, and forms, when tipped with its slim column of smoke from the tile-kiln, a pleasing feature in the landscape.
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Since the Chief Consul has made it his town-residence, this is the new denomination given to the _Palais des Tuileries_, thus called, because a tile-kiln formerly stood on the site where it is erected.
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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At that time, this part of Paris was not comprised within its walls, nothing was to be seen here, in the vicinity of the tile-kiln, but a few coppices and scattered habitations.
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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