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masonry

[mey-suhn-ree] / ˈmeɪ sən ri /
NOUN
craft of mason
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Steel beams can be installed against masonry walls to give older spaces added protection from reverberations, but it’s unclear whether any were installed at Golestan or Chehel Sotoun.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Locals sometimes used to swim around the stone masonry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

A witness told AFP that masonry from an eight-storey building in Dhaka had fallen onto a busy road below.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

Finally, six hours later, Abu Warda parked the tractor before a heap of masonry and distressed rebar in Jabalia: home.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2025

Thus Neolithic Europe never reached the level of social organization that produced the masonry architecture of Jericho or the dense urban community of Çatal Hüyük.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson




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