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cobblestoned en · ADJ

Etymology

From cobblestone + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Cobbled; laid with cobblestones.
    • Wandering away from the entrance to the restaurant, Sam stood by the fountain in the old cobblestoned square, looking at the church of Santa Maria... 1961, Morley Callaghan, A passion in Rome:
    • A handsome thatched inn, the Royal Oak, stands opposite a cobblestoned packhorse bridge over the River Winn ^([sic]) [Winn Brook], and there are seven more bridges and a ford in the village. 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 407, about Winsford, Somerset:
  2. (not-comparable) Exhibiting cobblestoning.
    • But, beyond gross morphologic observations this is purely speculative and not tested by studies in cobblestoned monolayers. 2005, Carolyn E Patterson, Perspectives on lung endothelial barrier function: