brownstone
a reddish-brown sandstone, used extensively as a building material.
Also called brownstone front . a building, especially a row house, fronted with this stone.
Archaic. belonging or pertaining to the well-to-do class.
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How to use brownstone in a sentence
The elegant brownstone stoops so beloved of contemporary city-dwellers allowed homeowners to “rise above a sea of manure.”
Did Cars Rescue Our Cities From Horses? - Issue 108: Change | Brandon Keim | November 10, 2021 | NautilusWhile they would later be viewed as authentic, contemporaries dismissed brownstones as modern and artificial.
Ronald Grullon, who was ultimately sentenced to probation on drug charges, had scaled the 9-foot gate outside a Manhattan brownstone as he ran from police.
Still Can’t Breathe | by Topher Sanders, ProPublica, and Yoav Gonen, THE CITY, video by Lucas Waldron, ProPublica | January 21, 2021 | ProPublicaA professor from City College, a member of a small arts society called the Vanishing Literary Club, gives Etta a room in his brownstone on West 89th Street.
Adrienne Kennedy’s new play, ‘Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side,’ is utterly unique | Peter Marks | January 14, 2021 | Washington PostMartin 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 | THE 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 | THE DAILY BEASTWe went to another house, a brownstone not too far from where I lived.
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 | THE DAILY BEASTFive 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 | THE DAILY BEASTMr. Dennis' brownstone front was one of the fine old houses on West 23rd street that are fast making way for stores.
Still Jim | Honor Willsie MorrowBut try as he would, Jim could say nothing until they reached the old brownstone front.
Still Jim | Honor Willsie MorrowThis was the first home that Jim had had since he had left the brownstone front and he was very proud of it.
Still Jim | Honor Willsie MorrowI crossed the pavement with her to the loutish brownstone front-stoop of the boarding house; there she turned to dismiss me.
The Book of Susan | Lee Wilson DoddThe unpretentious, brownstone-fronted home of Deputy Copeland was visited, late that night, by a woman.
The Shadow | Arthur Stringer
British Dictionary definitions for brownstone
/ (ˈbraʊnˌstəʊn) /
a reddish-brown iron-rich sandstone used for building
a house built of or faced with this stone
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