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"terazzo mosaic." In either the Roman or terazzo method any patterns or designs that are introduced are first worked in position, the ground-work being filled in afterwards. For the use of cement for paving see PLASTER. The principal publications on brickwork are as follows:--Rivington, _Notes on Building Construction_, vols. i. ii. iii.; Col. H.E. Seddon, _Aide Memoir_, vol. ii.; _Specification_; J.P. Allen, _Building Construction_; F.E. Kidder, _Building Construction and Superintendence_, part i. (1903); Longmans & Green, _Building Construction_; E. Dobson, _Bricks and Tiles_; Henry Adams, _Building Construction_; C.F. Mitchell, _Building Construction_, vols. i. ii.; E. Street, _Brick and Marble Architecture in Italy_. (J. BT.) BRICOLE (a French word of unknown origin), a military engine for casting heavy stones; also a term in tennis for a sidestroke rebounding off the wall of the court, corrupted into "brickwall" from a supposed reference to the wall, and in billiards for a stroke off the cushion to make a cannon or hazard. BRIDAINE (or BRYDAYNE), JACQUES (1701-1767), French Roman Catholic preacher, was born at Chuslan in the department of Gard on the 21st of March 1701. He was educated at Avignon, first in the Jesuit college and afterwards at the Sulpician seminary of St Charles. Soon after his ordination to the priesthood in 1725, he joined the _Missions Royales_, organized to bring back to the Catholic faith the Protestants of France. He gained their good-will and made many converts; and for over forty years he visited as a missionary preacher almost every town of central and southern France. In Paris, in 1744, his sermons created a deep impression by their eloquence and sincerity. He died at Roquemaure, near Avignon, on the 22nd of December 1767. He was the author of _Cantiques spirituels_ (Montpelier, 1748, frequently reprinted, in use in most French churches); his sermons were published in 5 vols. at Avignon in 1823 (ed. Paris, 1861). See Abbe G. Carron, _Le Modele des pretres_ (1803). BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g. Goth. _bruths_, O.Eng. _bryd_, O.H.Ger. _prut_, Mod. Ger. _Braut_, Dut. _bruid_, possibly derived from the root _bru-_, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form _bruta_, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. _bru_), the term used of a woman on her wedding-day, and applicable during the first year of wifehood. It appears in combination with many words, some of them obs
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