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ˈflag-stone, ˈflagstone
[f. flag n.2 + stone.]
1. a. A flag or flat stone suitable for paving, etc.; hence often in pl. = pavement. b. Sandstone capable of being split up into flags.
a.1730A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 359 A Pavement of large Flag-Stones. 1791Boswell Johnson (1848) 807/2 Over his [Johnson's] grave was placed a large blue flag⁓stone with this inscription. 1840F. Trollope Widow Married xii, Enjoying the sea-breeze on the broad flag⁓stones of the Marine Parade.
b.1812–16J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 220 If..a block of flag-stone were converted into a pillar. 1868B. J. Lossing Hudson 184 Extensive quarries of flagstone.
attrib.1842H. Miller O.R. Sandst. x. (ed. 2) 229 The flagstone quarries of Caithness and Carmylie.
2. flagstone artist = pavement-artist (see pavement n. 4).
1861Mayhew Lond. Labour Extra vol. (1862) 436/2 They arrested these flag-stone artists with others. 1891Kipling Light that Failed iv. 54 They believed I was a self-taught flagstone artist.
Hence ˈflagstoned, paved with flag-stones.
1885S. O. Jewett Marsh Isl. xi, From whence one could look across the flagstoned court. |