Bluestone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bluestone is a noun meaning Any of several bluish-grey varieties of stone used for construction:.
Meaning
Any of several bluish-grey varieties of stone used for construction:.
More Meanings
- Either of two related copper- and sulfur-based bright blue stones:
- Lapis lazuli, or its core constituent, lazurite.
- (transitive) To treat or dose with copper sulfate.
Example Sentences
Cedar from the Lebanon forests; lapis lazuli bluestone from sources as far away as Afghanistan; and ivory, ebony, [and] gold, […]
[…] but the “bluestone,” or lapis lazuli, was quarried by the Egyptians in the Sinaitic peninsula, and to these mines, perhaps, the author refers.
William rented the house on the corner of Lefevre Terrace and Tynte Street: a two-storey home of local bluestone with stuccoed enrichments, in high Victorian Italianate style.
From Cyprus were brought bricks of lead, with bluestone and elephant's tusks, and the vases were carved in fanciful designs, with the heads of goats, lions, bulls, and eagles.
Word Forms
- bluestones
- bluestoning
- bluestoned
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include graystone, stone, brownstone, throughstone, greystone, whinstone.
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