breeze-block
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of perforated building block used for ventilation and letting natural light in.
Example Sentences
- "Featuring, as the title “Concrete House” suggests, a main theme of concrete and perforated breeze blocks so evocative of the ’70s, it was cited in several categories of the Think Brick Awards and named project of the year in the Housing Industry Association’s Perth Innovation Housing Awards."
- "A triangular breeze block is introduced to create screening walls, forming the new entry pathway."
- "Unlike some building technologies, breezeblock doesn’t have one single “inventor.” Rather, the idea of decorative concrete blocks seems to have emerged in multiple corners of the world in the late 1910s and early 1920s, simultaneously appearing in buildings in Brazil, France, and California."
Etymology
Usage
- British usage