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[ broun-stohn ] / ˈbraʊnˌstoʊn /
nouna reddish-brown sandstone, used extensively as a building material. Also called brownstone front . a building, especially a row house, fronted with this stone. adjectiveArchaic. belonging or pertaining to the well-to-do class. Origin of brownstoneFirst recorded in 1830–40; brown + stone Words nearby brownstonebrown soils, Brownson, brown spot, brown-state, brown stem rot, brownstone, brownstoner, brown study, brown study, in a, brown sugar, Brownsville Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for brownstoneMartin Amis asks as he greets me in the invitingly elegant hallway of his Brooklyn brownstone. Martin Amis Talks About Nazis, Novels, and Cute Babies|Ronald K. Fried|October 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST My Parents bought their first home in 1968, a Brownstone in Fort Greene, where my Father still lives. Spike Lee Blasts The New York Times’ Story on Brooklyn Gentrification in Fiery Op-Ed|Marlow Stern|March 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST We went to another house, a brownstone not too far from where I lived. Maya Angelou: How I Write|Noah Charney|April 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST She then told another story about the same boyfriend—a guy living in a brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Lena Dunham’s Improv Night at the Upright Citizens Brigade|Marlow Stern|March 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Five months ago, Mercado was visiting a friend and left her chair outside a brownstone apartment. Wheelchair-bound Blogger Warms Fashion Week Hearts|Corbin Chamberlin|February 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST There was nothing mysterious or forbidding about the plain, brownstone house before which they had stopped. Peter Ruff and the Double Four|E. Phillips Oppenheim At Lulu's rooming-house they lingered again, talking in subdued tones on the brownstone stoop. Just Around the Corner|Fannie Hurst In places the brownstone front was cracked and great chips had flaked off. The Secret Wireless|Lewis E. Theiss Built of brownstone, without a window, and with no other ornament than a frieze in relief below the eave, it suggested a tomb. The High Heart|Basil King But they could have been human and mortal; the brownstone could have yielded to a flat-faced office building. The Trial of Callista Blake|Edgar Pangborn
British Dictionary definitions for brownstone
noun USa reddish-brown iron-rich sandstone used for building a house built of or faced with this stone Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |