

As an example, I once lived in a brick house in the southwest. A true brick house, built in the 1930’s so EVERY wall was 3 or 4 courses of brick - 18".
The west-facing wall would bake all afternoon and then radiate that heat all night long. During the summer months that wall never cooled off, it was always warm (80°+).
Winter it was nice, but summer it was a bitch cooling that place at all.


cookie(n.) 1730, Scottish, but the sense is “plain bun,” and it is debatable whether it is the same word; in the sense of “small, flat, sweet cake” by 1808 (American English); this use is from Dutch koekje “little cake,” diminutive of koek “cake,” from Middle Dutch koke (see cake (n.)). “Dutch influence is no doubt responsible also for the parallel use of the word in South African English” [Ayto, “Diner’s Dictionary”].