flagstone

[ flag-stohn ]
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noun
  1. Also called flag. a flat stone slab used especially for paving.

  2. flagstones, a walk, terrace, etc., paved with flagstones.

  1. rock, as sandstone or shale, suitable for splitting into flagstones.

Origin of flagstone

1
First recorded in 1720–30; flag4 + stone

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How to use flagstone in a sentence

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

    Hoover’s Secret Files | Ronald Kessler | August 2, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Animated by this fresh hope, the party now worked away, and in a few minutes had lifted the ponderous flagstone.

  • He walked up what had once been a concrete path and was now an ornate flagstone path.

    The First One | Herbert D. Kastle
  • Her eyes were downcast, and one little foot tapped the flagstone nervously.

    In Friendship's Guise | Wm. Murray Graydon
  • A recent rain had washed the streets from curb to curb, and under foot flagstone and asphalt lay clean as steel.

    The Silver Poppy | Arthur Stringer

British Dictionary definitions for flagstone

flagstone

flag

/ (ˈflæɡˌstəʊn) /


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

  2. a slab of such a rock

Origin of flagstone

1
C15 flag (in the sense: sod, turf), from Old Norse flaga slab; compare Old English flæcg plaster, poultice

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