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flag⋅stone

  [flag-stohn]
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–noun
1. Also called flag. a flat stone slab used esp. for paving.
2. flagstones, a walk, terrace, etc., paved with flagstones.
3. rock, as sandstone or shale, suitable for splitting into flagstones.
Origin:
1720–30; flag 4 + stone
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flag·stone   (flāg'stōn')   
n.  

  1. A flat slab of stone used as a paving material.

  2. An evenly layered sedimentary rock that can be split into paving stones.

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flagstone 
1730, from flag "flat, split stone" (1604), earlier "piece cut from sod" (1415), from O.N. flaga "stone slab," of unknown origin, perhaps related to O.N. flak (see flake).
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