bluestone
bluestone noun: any of several bluish-grey varieties of stone used for construction.
Noun
bluestone (countable and uncountable, plural bluestones)
- Any of several bluish-grey varieties of stone used for construction
- Its people are proud of their history and heritage of free settlement and the famous bluestone homes and public buildings of Adelaide are among the most orderly and best cared for examples of colonial architecture in the country.2000, Laura Veltman, Living and Working in Australia: All you need to know for starting a new life ‘down under’, 7th edition, page 184
- Hanson Chambers, as 56 Carrington Street was eventually known, confirmed the tradition that the South Australian bar would develop as a series of small enclaves, more often than not in old, bluestone buildings dating back to the nineteenth century.2006, John Emerson, History of the Independent Bar of South Australia, page 23
- A form of dolerite which appears blue when wet or freshly broken.
- Any of the several (massive) kinds of non-local stone (particularly dolerite) used to construct Stonehenge.
- A feldspathic sandstone found in the US and Canada.
- A form of limestone found in the Shenandoah Valley and some other places.
- A bluish-grey basalt or olivine basalt.
- Slate, such as comes from quarries in or near Adelaide.
- Copper(II) sulfate, CuSO₄(H₂O)ₓ where x is 0-5, used as a coloring agent in glass-making and pottery and for other purposes.
- ‘You’ve on’y to soak the blade of the axe in bluestone the night before y’ start ringin’.’1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 27
- This consists of thoroughly spraying the plants with Bordeaux mixture once in ten days or two weeks after they have begun to run. Bordeaux mixture is made by bringing together the milk of lime and a solution of copper sulphate (bluestone).1924, Farmers' Bulletin, page 4
- Chalcanthite, a water-soluble sulfate mineral, CuSO₄·5H₂O.
- This belt is about 1,000 feet wide at the McConnell Mine, and ends a few hundred yards north of the Bluestone. […] It was worked about 30 years ago, and for a time supplied natural bluestone (chalcanthite) to the amalgamating mills ...1910, Colliery Engineer, page 89
- […] of the mineral is a somewhat lighter shade of blue than that of bluestone (chalcanthite CuSOiSHjO).1949, The Canadian Mineralogist
- Lapis lazuli, or its core constituent, lazurite.
- From Cyprus were brought bricks of lead, with bluestone and elephant's tusks, and the vases were carved in fanciful designs, with the heads of goats, lions, bulls, and eagles.1892, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Littell's Living Age, page 23
- […] but the “bluestone,” or lapis lazuli, was quarried by the Egyptians in the Sinaitic peninsula, and to these mines, perhaps, the author refers.1898, Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Verb
bluestone (third-person singular simple present bluestones, present participle bluestoning, simple past and past participle bluestoned)
Proper noun capitalized: Bluestone
Bluestone
- A surname.
Examples of bluestone in a sentence
- William rented the house on the corner of Lefevre Terrace and Tynte Street: a two-storey home of local bluestone with stuccoed enrichments, in high Victorian Italianate style.2008, John Jenkin, William and Lawrence Bragg, Father and Son, unnumbered page:
- Mackenzie Wool and Hide now exported leather products around the world and, in a roundabout manner, and along with my parents, was helping us buy our bluestone cottage in the Adelaide suburb of Unley.2009, Josephine Emery, The Real Possibility of Joy: A Personal Journey from Man to Woman, unnumbered page:
- Bordeaux mixture is a combination of bluestone (copper sulfate) and lime (calcium hydroxide).2001, Steve H. Dreistadt, Integrated Pest Management for Floriculture and Nurseries, University of California Agriculture and Natural...
- This is, however, one of those cases in which you can use the chemical copper sulphate to study the process and theory while you are hunting down some bluestone.2006, Brian Cotnoir, The Weiser Concise Guide to Alchemy, Weiser Books, →ISBN:
Forms of bluestone
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bluestones |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | bluestones |
| present participle | bluestoning |
| past participle | bluestoned |
| past | bluestoned |
Origin of bluestone
From blue + stone.
Questions about bluestone
- What does bluestone mean?
- Bluestone means any of several bluish-grey varieties of stone used for construction.
- How do you use bluestone in a sentence?
- William rented the house on the corner of Lefevre Terrace and Tynte Street: a two-storey home of local bluestone with stuccoed enrichments, in high Victorian Italianate style.
- What part of speech is bluestone?
- Bluestone can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of bluestone?
- The plural of bluestone is bluestones.
Words near bluestone in the dictionary
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