brownstonenoun
uk/ˈbraʊn.stəʊn/us/ˈbraʊn.stoʊn/mainly US[ C ] a house with its front built of a reddish-brown stone, especially common in New York City
[ U ] a kind of reddish-brown stone used for building
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Houses & homes
- A-frame
- almshouse
- apartment
- apartment building
- apt
- flophouse
- garden apartment
- garden flat
- gated community
- gatehouse
- public housing
- pueblo
- Quonset hut
- ranch house
- rest home
- villa
- walk-up
- wigwam
- workhouse
- yurt
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Examples from literature
- A big brownstone building confronted them.
- I wouldn't trade that old building for all the brownstone between here and New York harbour, he declared.
- It is a room in which all the arts of the undertaker have seemingly been called upon to bring out the full possibilities of the average New York brownstone "front-parlour."
- It was after half past four when, having walked up five flights of stairs, he let himself into his modest flat on the top floor of an old-fashioned brownstone house.
- On the east side of the block were four brownstone houses, wide, tall, and roomy.