brownstone

brown +‎ stone

brownstone (countable and uncountable, plural brownstones)

1. (uncountable) A variety of brown to red-brown sandstone once popular as a building material.
2. (countable) A row house built of brownstone, especially in New York City.
   

   A Manhattan brownstone
   • 1979, Talking Heads, Life During Wartime:

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

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

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

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