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.

Origin of flagstone

First recorded in 1720–30; flag⁴ + stone

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Related Words for flagstone

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

Examples from the Web for flagstone

Contemporary Examples of flagstone

They built a redwood garden fence and installed a flagstone court and sidewalks.
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.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete
Emile Zola
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.
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo

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

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