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kerbstones

kerbstones is the plural of kerbstone.

Meaning of kerbstone

Noun

kerbstone (plural kerbstones)

  1. (UK) A paving stone that forms part of a kerb.
    • You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days. Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party.1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act I, page 115

Questions about kerbstones

What is kerbstones the plural of?
Kerbstones is the plural of kerbstone.

Words near kerbstones in the dictionary

  1. Kerbses
  2. kerbside
  3. kerbsides
  4. kerbstone
  5. kerbstoned
  6. kerbstones
  7. kerbsy
  8. kerby
  9. Kerbys
  10. Kerce
  11. Kerces

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