Cobblestoned
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Cobbled; laid with cobblestones. not-comparable
"Wandering away from the entrance to the restaurant, Sam stood by the fountain in the old cobblestoned square, looking at the church of Santa Maria..."
- 2 Exhibiting cobblestoning. not-comparable
"But, beyond gross morphologic observations this is purely speculative and not tested by studies in cobblestoned monolayers."
Example
More examples"My workplace in the late 1980s and early 1990s was an old brick building with wooden beams in the quaint Vancouver cobblestoned district of Gastown, walking distance to Chinatown. It was a software firm."
Etymology
From cobblestone + -ed.
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