ragstone
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of ragstone
C14: from rag 4 + stone
Example Sentences
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Grimes selected the site of some blitzed office buildings, dug a trench and found the face of a solid wall made of Kentish ragstone, the Romans' favorite building material.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Ragged Churches, we suppose, will be built of ragstone; the pulpit-cushion, the altar-cloth, will be all rags.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
On the west side again is Trinity Church, date 1872, a small church of ragstone with red-tiled roof.
From Hampstead and Marylebone The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant
The body of the wall was constructed of ragstone, flint, and lime, bonded at intervals with courses of plain and curve-edged tiles.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
The buildings are of Kentish ragstone, were designed by Cundy, and contain a church, clergy house, and school-house with teacher's residence.
From Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant
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