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Half-staff

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Noun
  1. 1
    Half-mast. Canada, Philippines, US, sometimes

    "[T]he agents of the steamship lines drowned their sorrow in rum and ran the house flags to half-staff."

  2. 2
    a position some distance below the top of a mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress wordnet

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