flagstaff
noun
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
It must have grown up silently, yet swiftly as a flag rises when you pull it up on a flagstaff, while they were all busied about the coronation.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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
The DuBeau in Flagstaff, Ariz., once a Green Book listing, now operates as a motel.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 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
Starting with Flagstaff, Arizona's appointment as the first Dark Sky City in 2001, the organization has certified dark sites, which can be communities, parks or protected areas, on six continents, 22 countries.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2025
I know this way so well from many crossings—Kingman, Ash Fork, Flagstaff with its mountain peak behind it, then Winslow, Holbrook, Sanders, down hill and up again, and then Arizona passed.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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
There was no official holiday, but by spontaneous consent flags fluttered from flagstaffs from the Falkland to the Orkney Islands, from the Beaufort Sea to Tasmania.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two flagstaffs had been raised on the upper story.
From With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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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