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English bond

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English bond
n
(Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] New brickwork (both blue in the middle and reddish in the new mass to the east) properly follows the English bond of the original work (alternate rows of headers and stretchers).
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