Flagstaff

Definitions

1. A pole on which a flag is raised.
2. A city, the county seat of Coconino County, Arizona, United States.
3. A town in Victoria, Australia.

Equivalents

Examples

“Snowball had found in the harness-room an old green tablecloth of Mrs. Jones's and had painted on it a hoof and a horn in white. This was run⟳ up the flagstaff in the farmhouse garden every Sunday morning.”

“1988, Rhodes Boyson, Hansard, 7 June, 1988, Criminal Justice Bill, https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/ The abolition of the death penalty has been the flagstaff of the permissive society. We know⟳ what that has meant for the people of this country. Local newspapers are full of articles about robbery, murder⟳, rape and, literally, pillage.”

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