Definition of "brique" []

• An obsolete form of brick. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Les deux tombeaux sont couleur de jaspre sur le vermeil, comme une brique (de jaspe rouge)."
• "BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic _bricke_, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French _brique_, originally a "broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic _brikan_, to break), a kind of artificial stone generally made of burnt clay, and largely used as a building material."
• "BRIQUETTE (diminutive of Fr. _brique_, brick), a form of fuel, known also as "patent fuel," consisting of small coal compressed into solid blocks by the aid of some binding material."