Definitions
Examples
“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
“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
“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.”
The Washington Post: A riverfront retreat, built with the long view
“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.”
The Washington Post: A riverfront retreat, built with the long view
“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.”
The Washington Post: Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Matthew Cabana of the Bean Group has the listing and says the property is fairly priced, considering details like the fieldstone fireplace and the privacy.”
“Rick Lopez Matthew Cabana of the Bean Group has the listing and says the property is fairly priced considering details like the fieldstone fireplace and the privacy.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fieldstone’.
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Just 'cause I like 'em, F
felony, frolic, fend, fuselage, farthingale, freewheeling, frigorific, flummery, fancypants, felsitic, flagstone, flageolet and 295 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (F)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
faery, fairy cross, fairy ring, falcon, fare-thee-well, farewell-summer, farthing, faun, fawn, felicitous, felicity, fencing and 109 more...
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discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
Looking back over this list, I haven't the slightest idea what mos...haymow, hawsepipe, stridor, bariatric, autotelic, apotropaic, cyanotype, tourelle, autobody, zudecca, stifado, corbeille and 1073 more...
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Portnoy's Complaint
Words gathered while reading Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth.
bonditt, goy, kishkas, goyische, shkotzim, if-onlying, pishachs, schvartze, milchiks, flaishedigeh, galvanic, chazerai and 123 more...
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common words
mei- root words, a changing mixture
common, communion, community, meatus, conge, permeate, irremeable, mew, molt, mutate, commute, permute and 87 more...
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earthwords
fka geology
palisade, escarpment, jasper, chert, quartz, geode, ruby, lapidary, sardonyx, fieldstone, feldspar
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fieldstone.
qroqqa 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.) Jul 10, 2008