Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stone occurring naturally in fields, often used as a building material.
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- noun A
stone found infields and used forbuilding .
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- noun stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material
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Examples
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Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal Some stones were removed from the fieldstone fireplace pictured here in the great room to make space for a mural inspired by a clock found in a historic church in Italy.
Music Mogul's Former Estate Maya Pope-Chappell 2011
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Brooke Schumacher Photography The house has heated fieldstone floors, a curved oak staircase and a three-story silo that was built in place of the original.
New Milford Dairy Barn Maya Pope-Chappell 2011
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Not hidden is the hefty fieldstone fireplace chimney, which lends warmth and character to the living room and to the hallway behind, where the rising chimney punctuates the wall.
A riverfront retreat, built with the long view Nancy McKeon 2010
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In the three-story great room with vaulted ceilings, some of the stones were removed from the fieldstone fireplace to make room for a timepiece mural inspired by a clock found in a church in Italy.
Mansion, to Tune of $22 Million Maya Pope-Chappell 2011
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One of the pleasures of this novel is Cunningham's description of these intoxicating homes, from the "insistent glittery buzz" of a Manhattan party to a rambling mansion on the coast, "all fieldstone and gables, girded on three of its four sides by verandas; contrived, somehow, with a sense of absolute authenticity."
Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles Ron Charles 2010
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The materials are honest - chunky, exposed roof trusses shaping the copper-roofed gables, fieldstone foundation, stained cedar-shingle siding and exterior trim stained a deep, woodsy green.
A riverfront retreat, built with the long view Nancy McKeon 2010
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Many of her details recall both folktales and her Bohemian ancestry – a kerchief, a tunic, a tidy fieldstone cottage encircled by flowers.
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They could also visit the shrine to Jesus or duck inside the fieldstone chapel to pass time in prayer.
Healer’s mission closed after arrest on charges of sexualt assault and extortion 2009
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Many of her details recall both folktales and her Bohemian ancestry – a kerchief, a tunic, a tidy fieldstone cottage encircled by flowers.
Wanda Gág’s ‘Millions of Cats’ — An American Classic for Children « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009
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One of the pleasures of this novel is Cunningham's description of these intoxicating homes, from the "insistent glittery buzz" of a Manhattan party to a rambling mansion on the coast, "all fieldstone and gables, girded on three of its four sides by verandas; contrived, somehow, with a sense of absolute authenticity."
Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles Ron Charles 2010
qroqqa commented on the word fieldstone
The floors were uneven, and various objects were used to keep the doors from closing: a fieldstone, a paving brick that Mrs Albright had encased in a neat covering made of a piece of carpet, and a conch shell, in which you could hear the roaring of the sea when you held it to your ear.
—James Thurber, 1952, 'Daguerreotype of a Lady', in The Thurber Album
It seems an obvious compound, so why am I listing it as if I haven't heard it before? Well it turns out to be a newcomer to the language, not the hoary retainer you might expect: OED first quotation is only 1896.
(Actually I'm not sure exactly what a paving brick is: a paving-stone, or some kind of what I would call a brick? Perhaps it too is a lexical item needing to be listed.)
July 10, 2008