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flagstone

[flag-stohn]
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noun

Also called flag. a flat stone slab used especially for paving.
flagstones, a walk, terrace, etc., paved with flagstones.
rock, as sandstone or shale, suitable for splitting into flagstones.

RELATED WORDS

sidewalk, road, asphalt, concrete, tar, surface, tile, brick, gravel, cobblestone, macadamize

Origin of flagstone

First recorded in 1720–30; flag4 + stone
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Examples from the Web for flagstone

Contemporary Examples of flagstone

  • They built a redwood garden fence and installed a flagstone court and sidewalks.

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    Hoover’s Secret Files

    Ronald Kessler

    August 2, 2011

Historical Examples of flagstone

  • And now the powder was flush with the flagstone which Guillaume has just moved aside.

  • We marched over the flagstone walk and into the house and up the stairway.

    Dwellers in the Hills

    Melville Davisson Post

  • He just got out and walked up the flagstone path and entered the house.

    The First One

    Herbert D. Kastle

  • The flagstone floor was strewn with fallen leaves that had drifted in.

    Cruel As The Grave

    Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth

  • All they had to do was to raise the flagstone and they could escape that very night.

British Dictionary definitions for flagstone

flagstone

flag

noun

a hard fine-textured rock, such as a sandstone or shale, that can be split up into slabs for paving
a slab of such a rock

Word Origin for flagstone

C15 flag (in the sense: sod, turf), from Old Norse flaga slab; compare Old English flæcg plaster, poultice
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Word Origin and History for flagstone
n.

1730, from flag (n.2) "flat, split stone" + stone (n.).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper