| 单词 | brownstone |
| 释义 | brownstone From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishBuildingsbrownstonebrown‧stone /ˈbraʊnstəʊn $ -stoʊn/ noun[countable]TBB a house in the US with a front made of reddish-brown stone, common in New York CityExamples from the Corpusbrownstone• I hated her because she was rich and lived in a big brownstone up near Stevens Institute of Technology.• Soon the neat stores were replaced by faded brownstones and tumbledown colonial houses.• To Katherine, a New Yorker, used to apartment blocks and intimate brownstones, it was trebly impressive.• Her building on Seventy-eighth turned out to be an Italianate brownstone closer to First than Second.• It was there as soon as she passed through the doors of their East Side brownstone.• I had stared over the famous landscape: the three bridges, the brownstones of Brooklyn Heights.• He was surprised how unimposing the brownstone looked now.• And now Ralph spent whole evenings admiring Pinkus's house, a handsome three-window-wide brownstone on a clean street. |
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