flagstaff
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flagstaff
1 American
[flag-staf, -stahf]
/ ˈflægˌstæf, -ˌstɑf /
noun
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flagstaves,
plural
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flagstaffs
plural
Flagstaff
2
American
[flag-staf, -stahf]
/ ˈflægˌstæf, -ˌstɑf /
noun
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We say: Give it to me straight, doc, but then a flagstaff comes crashing down between our eyes.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2022
Mr. Kinzler was charged with designing a moonworthy flagstaff.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2014
In his design, the sleeve was supported by a collapsible crossbar attached to the flagstaff.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2014
He would win by the length of a street, and a blue and white flag would go fluttering up the flagstaff and everybody would stand to attention while the band played the Finnish national anthem.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2012
The skull of old Major, now clean of flesh, had been disinterred from the orchard and set up on a stump at the foot of the flagstaff, beside the gun.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
The engineers of a young company, Katalyst Space Technologies, from Flagstaff, Arizona, were given the task of saving the observatory.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Spencer Timmons, a 21-year-old University of California, Los Angeles student, said he is now planning a drive to Flagstaff, Ariz., this summer rather than shorter trips around Los Angeles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Carmen Alvarez, collections and conservation manager at the palace, said the "fascinating" trail would show people the Flagstaff Gate, Great Court and Long Library, so they could see how the women took part in counter-espionage.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025
The most important thing you'll need to know where to look and have a good view of the horizon, according to Nick Moscowitz, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2024
Lowell built his observatory far away from home, on Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Arizona.'
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
When displayed at the same location on separate poles, the code says, they “should be displayed on flagpoles or flagstaffs of the same height” and “the flags should be of approximately equal size.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2022
Mitchel Square in Washington Heights is named for him, and the two commemorative flagstaffs in the plaza in front of the main public library on Fifth Avenue memorialize Mitchel.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2011
On the waterfront of Bilbao last week, city flags still hung from flagstaffs flaunting the city's 700-year motto: INVINCIBLE.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week from the flagstaffs of these pampered potentates fluttered the crimson & gold of Bikaner, the blue, white & yellow of Bahawalpur, the scarlet of Patiala.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both in the large houses I have just been speaking of, and in the ordinary wealthy man's house which has cost him from £3,000 to £5,000, turrets and flagstaffs abound.
From Town Life in Australia by Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny
Over the altar are still seen the French flagstaves, taken by the garrison in a desperate sally.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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