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greystone
greystone
English
Noun
greystone (plural greystones)
- Alternative form of graystone
- 1907, Elizabeth Wetherell, Melbourne House:
- The walls were of native greystone in its natural roughness; all over the front and one angle the American ivy climbed and waved, mounting to the tower; while at the back, the closer clinging Irish ivy covered the little "apse," and creeping round the corner, was advancing to the windows, and promising to case the first one in a loving frame of its own.
- 1865, Susan Warner, Melbourne House, Volume 1:
- The walls were of native greystone in its natural roughness; all over the front and one angle the American ivy climbed and waved, mounting to the tower; while at the back, the closer clinging Irish ivy covered the little "apse," and creeping round the corner, was advancing to the windows, and promising to case the first one in a loving frame of its own.