Wiktionary
n. 1 (&lit bricks and mortar English) 2 (alternative form of brick and mortar English)
WordNet
n. building material consisting of bricks laid with mortar between then
Usage examples of "bricks and mortar".
Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of revellers.
Again dust, bricks and mortar, again the stench from the shops and pot-houses, again the drunken men, the Finnish pedlars and half-broken-down cabs.
Even now bricks and mortar are being brought so that we can give you a more permanent roof.
Say twenty muleloads of your cloth against forty loads of my bricks and mortar?
To build it, he contracted with me to take all the surplus bricks and mortar we could produce for three years, and gave us all the surplus cloth his factory could make for the next five.
As the musicians play, the ground beyond the bricks and mortar and water appears to shiver.
One moment nothing, and then there was a sharp crack of rending bricks and mortar, and the whole damned stack went over the side of the roof, taking Cat with it.