Brighton
[brahyt-n]
- a city in East Sussex, in SE England: seashore resort.
- a city near Melbourne in S Victoria, in SE Australia.
- a town in central Colorado.
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Contemporary Examples
When we moved to Brighton Beach, I was 13 and a half and only a few houses away lived the one and only Buddy Rich.
And there may be no better place in the U.S. to experience that side of Russia than Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, NY.
In fact, the Brighton branch is being set up by Anita and Stuart Balkham, a married couple who live in Sussex.
Menkes was born in 1943 to a Jewish lawyer father and mother and raised in the countryside in Brighton, England.
But Club Versailles in Brighton Beach was just Michael Jackson, bright lights, and a smoke machine.
Michelle Gagnon’s How I Write Interview: When I Was a Russian Supper-Club DancerNoah Charney
September 5, 2012
Historical Examples
Port Elizabeth from the sea has the aspect of a small Brighton.
The Last VoyageLady (Annie Allnutt) Brassey
De Barral, he resumed suddenly, was not coming to Brighton for weekends regularly, then.
ChanceJoseph Conrad
I begged to have a line from him to the "Crown Hotel, Brighton," and concluded.
A Day's RideCharles James Lever
Won the Brighton Beach overnight sweepstakes in nineteen an' four.
Garrison's FinishW. B. M. Ferguson
Sysonby himself won the Brighton sweepstakes in nineteen-four.
Garrison's FinishW. B. M. Ferguson
Brighton
- a coastal resort in S England, in Brighton and Hove unitary authority, East Sussex: patronized by the Prince Regent, who had the Royal Pavilion built (1782); seat of the University of Sussex (1966) and the University of Brighton (1992). Pop: 134 293 (2001)
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