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Bluestone   Listen
noun
Bluestone  n.  
1.
Blue vitriol.
2.
A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States.





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"Bluestone" Quotes from Famous Books



... shut and the eyes flashed again. "He allowed he'd break the rupe after he'd walked on it, and he said it wasn't stretched tight enough, and went along a feeling of it; and Misc Somers found out every time he teched of it he put on some bluestone water or somethin' else to rot it, so, of course, he bruke it easy. But Misc Somers's going to tell him, if he comes agin, he's a mountin-bank. ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend
... of Gothic architecture, built of brownstone, with spires 210 ft. high; the cathedral of All Saints (Protestant Episcopal), an English Gothic structure of pink sandstone designed by R. W. Gibson and begun in 1883; St Peter's Episcopal Church (French Gothic), of Hudson River bluestone; Emmanuel Baptist Church, of white granite; the Madison Avenue Reformed Church; and St Joseph's (Roman Catholic), of bluestone and Caen stone with marble trimmings. Among the educational institutions ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


Words linked to "Bluestone" :   sandstone


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