[
US
/ˈbɹaʊnˌstoʊn/
]
[ UK /bɹˈaʊnstəʊn/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈaʊnstəʊn/ ]
NOUN
- a row house built of brownstone; reddish brown in color
- a reddish brown sandstone; used in buildings
How To Use brownstone In A Sentence
- This leaves Silla alone with her newly acquired brownstone as well as her guilt, and Selina with the task of coming to terms with strong, ambivalent feelings toward her mother and her own West Indian American heritage.
- Gentlemen, herewith I enclose a list of some of the churches built with Hummelstown brownstone throughout, furnished by the Hummelstown Brownstone Company within 20 years, and most of them within the last 6 years.
- Hummelstown brownstone traversed the gamut of the masonry trades from foundation to lintel, mansion to privy, bridge abutment to gravestone, skyscraper to curbstone, and so on for seemingly endless uses.
- The glacier scoured away all the rock above the Portland brownstone leaving a mantle of glacial till.
- The doorway and window detailing was of brownstone, not the limestone or marble used for such elements in comparable earlier houses.
- But he always associated thoughts of family with the pretty little brownstone his parents now inhabited down in Washington, D.C.
- She lived in a comfy little brownstone with blue walls and white furniture, accentuated with green lamps and pictures of her family.
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- They quarried the brownstone, then called freestone, because of the ease with which it could be worked.
- They rounded the corner and Keaton was surprised to find Tanya sitting outside her brownstone, listening to her headphones.