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Brickfielder. World English Historical Dictionary

Brickfielder. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Brickfielder [f. prec. + -ER1.] Local name in Sydney, New South Wales, for a thick cloud of dust brought over the city by a south wind from neighboring sandhills (called the ‘Brickfields’).

1 1853.  Fraser’s Mag., XLVIII. 515. What the Sydney people call a brickfielder.’

2 1862.  Clara Aspinall, 3 Yrs. in Melbourne, 189. A dust-storm—a real ‘Brickfielder’—was blowing, so that the face of vegetable nature was completely hidden from my view.

3 1886.  Cowan, Charcoal Sk. The buster and brickfielder: Austral red-dust blizzard and red-hot simoom.

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