Lenox

American  

[len-uhks] / ˈlɛn əks /

noun

1. a town in W Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills: a former estate Tanglewood in the area is the site of annual summer music festivals.

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Example Sentences

In 1978, the British director Tina Packer gathered up 25 actors and theater artists and moved them into the squalid, boarded-up bones of Edith Wharton’s former mansion, known as the Mount, in Lenox, Mass. Living and working together, with little financing and subsisting largely on macaroni and cheese, they formed a kind of ragtag, theatrical laboratory called Shakespeare & Company to explore Packer’s boundary-pushing approach to the Bard.

From The Wall Street Journal

Working with her own company in Lenox, which became a nationally renowned regional theater, or elsewhere around the country, she would direct 37 of Shakespeare’s plays—what she and many others consider the complete canon.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Welcome to this distinguished 19th-century townhouse, a true architectural gem located in the heart of Lenox Hill’s iconic Treadwell Farm Historic District,” the description stated.

From MarketWatch

Enchanted with Lenox, Mass., and the rustic charm of the Berkshires, they bought a large portion of the historic Wheatleigh estate.

From The Wall Street Journal

Another pianist, Dave Brubeck, spent more than one summer in residence there with his family, teaching at the short-lived but influential Lenox School of Jazz—the same program that jolted the jazz establishment in 1959 by cultivating a pair of brash young originals, the saxophonist Ornette Coleman and the trumpeter Don Cherry, joint heralds of an incipient avant-garde.

From The Wall Street Journal