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flagstaff

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from flag (n.) + staff (n.). The settlement in Arizona, U.S., said to have been so called for a July 4, 1876, celebration in which a large flag was flown from a tall tree.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flagstaff \Flag"staff`\, n.; pl. -staves or -staffs . A staff[4] on which a flag is hoisted.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A flagstaff is a staff for displaying a flag; see Flag#Flagpoles . Flagstaff may also refer to:

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The tower provided shore accommodation for keepers and kept in communication with the lighthouse by means of flagstaff signals and carrier pigeons.

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 52894 Housing Units (2000): 21396 Land area (2000): 63.579496 sq. miles (164.670132 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.036838 sq. miles (0.095411 sq. km) Total area (2000): 63.616334 sq. miles (164.765543 sq. km) FIPS code: 23620 Located within: ...

Usage examples of flagstaff.

Sandi Thiaput at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, had made several measurements of the Martian albedo for another project the previous year and Sandi e-mailed the raw and post-processed data to him.

Part of the Highland detachment were assembling around the flagstaff, the trumpeter and four kettledrummers already in position for the lowering of the flag.

Griffiths erected a flagstaff with a whift, which we had in the boat, increased in size by a couple of handkerchiefs.

Flagstaff and moved out here shortly after we did, with a National Parascience Foundation grant to concentrate on his lunar studies.

Cosmo asked on their first date at the Lowell Observatory on Mars Hill outside Flagstaff, where they took turns looking up at red Mars through the same refractor Percival Lowell had used to study the canals of the Red Planet a century ago.

Mars through the twenty-four-inch antique refractor at Lowell Observatory outside Flagstaff.

Marsh Pass and Kayenta with my old guide, Al Doyle of Flagstaff, I finally succeeded in getting Wetherill to take me in to Nonnezoshe.

And then I took a bus to Flagstaff and then to Kayenta, and then I caught a ride.

I had already done a little hiking to the west around Rangeley and Flagstaff Lakes, in the week before Katz came, as a kind of reconnoiter, so I felt as if I knew the terrain.

The low, sodded, and verdant ramparts, the sombre palisades, now darker than ever with water, the roof of a house or two, the tall, solitary flagstaff, with its halyards blown steadily out into a curve that appeared traced in immovable lines in the air, were all soon to be seen though no sign of animated life could be discovered.

CEO ARRIVED IN Flagstaff late Wednesday night and was rushed downtown to a tall building where the lawyers were conspiring.

The main mob was moving down Cuvier's central thoroughfare behind a barricade of slogan boards and improvised flagstaffs.

Listen, after we were chauffeured from the airport to the main administration building at Flagstaff, we uncrated Jane and she stepped out of the box.

The wind was falling, but a mighty sea was still thundering in on Berande beach, the flying spray reaching in as far as the flagstaff mounds, the foaming wash creaming against the gate-posts.

The amphitheater was close to the summit of Flagstaff Mountain, and nearly everyone in the Free Zone had made the trip to the camping area at the top before they had been in Boulder very long.