brownstone

plural brownstones

1. uncountableA variety of brown to red-brown sandstone once popular as a building material.
2. countableA row house built of brownstone, especially in New York City.

   Lived in a brownstone, lived in the ghetto, I’ve lived all over this town.

   1979, Talking Heads, Life During Wartime

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   Did I mention he lives in a fantastic, expensive-looking brownstone? Did I mention that he’s a published novelist? Did I mention that he’s an involved, attentive father?

   2014 October 9, James Poniewozik, “Review: The Affair: More Than Meets the "I"”, in Time

   They emerge from the car to face a pair of brownstones, stately narrow things, which seem to have been similarly renovated and decorated.

   2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 203

present singular third person brownstones · participle present brownstoning · participle past brownstoned · past brownstoned

1. historicaltransitiveTo scour (steps) with a donkey stone.