Graystone

Quick meaning: Graystone is a noun meaning (uncountable) A type of gray volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron.

Meaning

(uncountable) A type of gray volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable, attributive) Any type of gray stone, such as limestone, used in building.
2. (countable, by extension) A building of this kind.

Example Sentences

Founded almost 50 years ago, it's an imposing graystone structure (formerly a park district office).

Because graystones were more expensive to build than frame buildings and had a more substantial look and feel, they were the choice of the middle and upper classes.

I certainly was not prepared for the cosy nestling valleys that snuggled against the shoulders of the hills; a land where the graystone cottages and farmsteads still prevailed, but where they had taken on something of the softness of their kind in Gloucester and the Cotswolds, and seemed almost like growths of the soil; […].

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include greystone, granulite, granite, granophyre, granitoid, grayschist.

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