Brownsville
[brounz-vil]
- a seaport in S Texas, near the mouth of the Rio Grande.
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Contemporary Examples
NYPD officers conducted 3,020 stops in Brownsville, a crime-ridden neighborhood in Brooklyn, in the first three months of 2013.
And after all of the searching, something deep within keeps returning me to Brownsville, Brooklyn, where it all began.
Historical Examples
Early in the nineteenth century, Redstone became Brownsville.
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Staid old Brownsville was stirred from center to sandy hollow.
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Alf Burnett, the humorist, compared Brownsville to slush ice.
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Lin asserted from the wildest, he had become the tamest boy in Brownsville.
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It was two o'clock in the morning when the boat touched at Brownsville.
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