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flagstaff

1

[ flag-staf, -stahf ]

noun

, plural flag·staves, flag·staffs.


Flagstaff

2

[ flag-staf, -stahf ]

noun

  1. a city in central Arizona. About 6,900 feet (2,100 meters) high.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of flagstaff1

First recorded in 1605–15; flag 1 + staff 1

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Example Sentences

I could see a thunderhead boiling up above Flagstaff, Arizona, 350 miles to the west.

In 2010, in what it says was the first such effort by a U.S. utility, APS placed panels on 125 homes in Flagstaff—for no charge.

The Flagstaff fire, though a trifling 300 acres, threatened Boulder and activated a top-level fire team.

At the Flagstaff Tower the 74th and the remainder of the 38th suddenly told their officers that they would obey them no longer.

She was officially placed in commission with Old Glory flying proudly at her flagstaff on the 5th day of May, 1919.

There seemed to be a blockhouse on shore, and a kind of earthwork, near which was a flagstaff, but no flag was exhibited.

We could see, ascending the great flagstaff at the end of its halyard, the broad folds of the flag.

The Federal flag had been struck some time before, and the flagstaff now stood gaunt and undecorated.

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