flagstone
Americannoun
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Also called flag. a flat stone slab used especially for paving.
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flagstones, a walk, terrace, etc., paved with flagstones.
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rock, as sandstone or shale, suitable for splitting into flagstones.
noun
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a hard fine-textured rock, such as a sandstone or shale, that can be split up into slabs for paving
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a slab of such a rock
Etymology
Origin of flagstone
Example Sentences
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Using drought-resistant plants and some native grasses, the designers created an intimate, pollinator-friendly garden with a serpentine path of repurposed flagstone running through it.
From Seattle Times • May 28, 2024
The snake’s flagstone surface is gently rounded, not flat, so care is needed on the climb.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2022
Under the soaring hammerbeam roof inside, there was only the muffled sound of shoes on a carpet newly laid over the flagstone floor.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2022
I really explored how she gets from this flagstone to the next flagstone to the lily pond to the bridge to the puddle to the stone — jumping from thing to thing.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022
Her fall had been softened by a bank of overgrown hemlocks, and she had missed the flagstone patio, tumbling instead onto the thick grass.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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