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bluestone

[ bloo-stohn ]

noun

  1. a bluish, argillaceous sandstone used for building purposes, flagging, etc.


bluestone

/ ˈbluːˌstəʊn /

noun

  1. a blue-grey sandstone containing much clay, used for building and paving
  2. the blue crystalline form of copper sulphate
  3. a blue variety of basalt found in Australia and used as a building stone
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bluestone1

First recorded in 1645–55; blue + stone
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Example Sentences

He just went where whim and the bluestone took him, working entirely by hand.

Where these bluestones can be found in abundance, however, is 150 miles away in Wales at a place called the Preseli Hills.

Inside is yet another ring, dating back at least 2,000 years, made of so-called bluestones — igneous rocks, each weighing between two and four tons, not indigenous to the area.

The site is near quarries previously identified as sources of smaller Stonehenge stones, known as bluestones.

She walked down the bluestone and blacktop driveway and through shadows thrown by the branches of seven leafless oak trees.

The term “Bluestone” in the West of England meant holy stone.

A smooth road of bluestone with a surface like velvet, rarely broken by badly paved or badly worn sections, ran straight south.

Martin, in despair, has taken to horse-doctoring his yaws with bluestone and to blessing the Solomons.

Two people should work together and pour the milk of lime and the bluestone solution together so that the streams mix in pouring.

Sprinkle a little copper sulfate (bluestone) in the flame of a Bunsen burner.

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