limestone
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limestone (countable and uncountable, plural limestones)
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abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments
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limestone (not comparable)
- Made of or with limestone.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
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