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/ˈfɹiːstəʊn/ · noun
(geology) Sedimentary rock: a type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, most commonly sandstone or limestone..
Mr Allworthy […] died immensely rich and built an hospital […] but had he done nothing more I should have left him to have recorded his own merit on some fair freestone over the door of that hospital.
It might, under all the circumstances above stated, have been a question with other builders, whether to import one shipload of costly jaspers, or twenty of chalk flints; and whether to build a small church faced with porphyry and paved with agate, or to raise a vast cathedral in freestone.
The exterior walls are of freestone, and have a smooth, neat appearance.
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Freestone means (geology) Sedimentary rock: a type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, most commonly sandstone or limestone..
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Mr Allworthy […] died immensely rich and built an hospital […] but had he done nothing more I should have left him to have recorded his own merit on some fair freestone over the door of that hospital.
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