brownstone
褐石,棕石,布朗石,褐石大厦
Definitions
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- : a reddish-brown sandstone, used extensively as a building material.
- : Also called brownstone front . a building, especially a row house, fronted with this stone.
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- : Archaic. belonging or pertaining to the well-to-do class.
Examples
While 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.
A 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.
Martin Amis asks as he greets me in the invitingly elegant hallway of his Brooklyn brownstone.
My Parents bought their first home in 1968, a Brownstone in Fort Greene, where my Father still lives.
We 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.
Five months ago, Mercado was visiting a friend and left her chair outside a brownstone apartment.
Mr. Dennis' brownstone front was one of the fine old houses on West 23rd street that are fast making way for stores.
But try as he would, Jim could say nothing until they reached the old brownstone front.
This was the first home that Jim had had since he had left the brownstone front and he was very proud of it.
I crossed the pavement with her to the loutish brownstone front-stoop of the boarding house; there she turned to dismiss me.
The unpretentious, brownstone-fronted home of Deputy Copeland was visited, late that night, by a woman.