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flag-staff en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of flagstaff.
   alt of flagstaff
   • Just outside the outer gateway posts are inserted in the ground wherewith to support the tall flag-staffs used at festivals, and sometimes other smaller ones for the cords on which lanterns are hung during illuminations. 2015, Henry Faulds, Nine Years in Nipon, page 261:
   • Near this cavern there was a hut for absolute magnetic observations, and on a small hill above, on which was a flag-staff, were the meteorological instruments. 2014, Clements R. Markham, F. H. H. Guillemard, The Lands of Silence, page 495:
   • At the west is a square tower, of graceless proportions, surmounted by a mean wooden turret and two flag-staves. 1816, John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Thomas Hood, The Beauties of England and Wales:
   • When the Flag is at half-staff, in the case of a cylindrical iron flag-staff, the middle of the hoist is about half-way between the top of the staff and the band to which the top of the guy anchors are fastened. 1928, Arthur Riehl Wilson, Robert Melville Danford, Field Artillery Manual:

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