freestone Definition
free·stone (frē′stōn′)
noun
adjective
having such a pit
freestone Usage Examples
Preposition: from
quarry: The style is that generally known as the Elizabethan, and the material, dressed red freestone from the local quarry.
Converse of object
- dress: The style is that generally known as the Elizabethan, and the material, dressed red freestone from the local quarry.
- chamfer: Dwarf foundation walls topped by chamfered freestone, supporting a timber superstructure; six glazed windows on either side.
- find: The excellent white freestone found in this township, is already noticed.
Adjective modifier
- pale: However, the window to the east is in pale buff freestone, the others in red.
- yellow: East wall: east window in yellow freestone, wholly a Victorian or later renewal.
- gray: The gray freestone may be stone looted from Roman ruins.
- red: The red freestone found here is similar to that obtained at St. Bees.
- white: The 18th-century buildings of Bath are mostly built of Bath Stone, a white freestone.
- good: Good durable white freestone and limestone is quarried here, but its principal mineral is coal, which it produces in great abundance.
Modifies a noun
- dressing: It is built of red brick, relieved by freestone dressings.
- quarry: Here are some excellent freestone quarries, which supplied the material for Wentworth House.
- quoin: The walls are of coursed rubble with rough-cast rendering with freestone quoins and dressings.
- block: In fabric ' A ' with random, large, grayish, fine-grained freestone blocks for quoins.
- ashlar: This early work is of square, dressed, freestone ashlars.
Noun used with modifier
- buff-yellow: Above is a rectangular window of two lights with hollow chamfers all in buff-yellow freestone.
- mustard-yellow: Three round-headed windows, the arch stones of the more westerly two in gray stone but with some jambs in mustard-yellow freestone.
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